Girl on the Prow

When life hands you lemons --- Hang on for the ride! Sara Widness did just that! She played a pregnant game of ping pong in the psychiatric ward, dressed to the nines on the world''s most famous train, baked eighteen loaves of bread a day at her country store, entertained journalists while dining on risotto draped in gold foil...

Vestal virgins deserve adjectives like vulnerable and gullible. Women should run as fast as they can away from these traits. She didn''t. At the end of the marathon, her shadows - or most of them - were plunging onto her finish line. Shadows are supplicants, begging her to forgive herself, or to forgive others or simply to accept fate.