For fourteen years, Carol D. Marsh, founding executive director of Miriam s House, lived among and served Washington, D.C. s homeless women with AIDS. "Nowhere Else I Want to Be" tells the story of the first ten years of Miriam s House, from 1996 to 2005. Weaving stories of the women from the humorous to the tragic, the mundane to the inspiring with the author s own struggles with race and culture, leadership and service, death and dying this memoir offers an intimate and stirring view into a world in which the transformative power of unconditional love is tested, and triumphs. These stories of life at Miriam s House illustrate the power of the human spirit to endure against the odds."