Waterways and mist-covered mountains of Alaska are backdrop in this moving story that brings tears of both laughter and sorrow. You will find it easy to immerse yourself in Cathy Cuenin's memoir as she takes you back and forth in time between her wild and adventuresome years aboard a tugboat with her young family, and later years as she faces the challenge of losing her life. Cuenin's life is turned upside down in one moment when she is suddenly unable to catch her breath and is diagnosed with an untreatable disease that will slowly rob her of breath. In clear and heart-felt language, she takes the reader along on her medical and spiritual journey, eloquently expressing the reality of pain, fear, and falling...and then standing up, healing, and cherishing. This book will hold your attention from beginning to end. You will discover how Cuenin learns to walk through one gut-wrenching crisis after another and about the wild country that informs her soul throughout the journey. You will fall in love with her husband, want to travel to Alaska, be inspired and reminded of your own courage. This is one woman's story and it is everyone's story for life can and will challenge each of us.