Bucked off

Summary: This is more than a story of a grieving widow finding the courage to get back in the saddle and ride. This is a collection of stories that will appeal to history buffs, readers experiencing grief and those just needing a good laugh. It is a diverse collection of stories of a man and woman that shared a life filled with adventure, joy and laughter, in what the author considers one of the most beautiful places on earth. The author had lived through grief before. She felt the sting of death at the age of twelve when her father succumbed to kidney failure. Several years later her mother was killed in an explosion that rocked the entire town. With her mother’s death she learned the five steps of grief and knew anger was the hardest one to swallow. She knew she had to find a better way to survive grief. In the years that followed, she lost many close friends, her sister and her grandmother. She singled out one survival technique. She knew that everyone had to stick together and help each other through the pain. On March 20, 2014 her husband died suddenly of an aortic aneurism. In a struggle to survive his death she created a plan. She would accept help from all that offered, not refuse any travel invitation and deal with each emotion as it arose by journalizing her feelings. For the first year she wrote letters to her husband and reminisced through stories of their life together. She struggled through the special occasions they would no longer share. Her goal was to emerge with a manuscript of healing. This is that manuscript. [from author's website, retrieved July 2016]