In this illuminating memoir, bereavement counsellor Judy Schreiber-Mosher portrays the immediacy of life that unfolds from the time of her husband's terminal cancer diagnosis -- basically a death sentence -- through her first three years of widowhood. She reveals that after the death of a loving partner the world does not end but rather transforms -- in this case as she ceremonially disperses ashes around the world, learns to eat, sleep and travel alone and eventually dates through the aid of secret tests devised to identify another possible soul-mate.