Motherly Musings: 30 Women and Men Reflect on the Roller Coaster Ride that is Motherhood celebrates the raw beauty of each side of the experience, taking readers on the joyous, challenging journey that is motherhood. Biological, foster, and adoptive mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers from all walks of life, across the nation, and across the globe share their souls and insight on this journey. Readers journey with these women and man through intense joy, bittersweet reflection, and heart-breaking trauma, each bounding back with a resilience and optimism only a mother warrior can invoke. Mother-writers remain the most honest and authentic sources of insight on their situation, after all.