Lighthouses and Living Along the Florida Gulf Coast

Book excerpt: Death is a reality of life, yet not everyone has the ability to face its after-shocks of utter sadness, fear, loneliness and emptiness. Death is also a great teacher if we learn to face it ~ and not run from it. This book is a compilation of humorous, poignant, heart breaking and thought provoking vignettes about the life and death of her grandmother; their relationship during and after death; and the challenges a person must face when death sits on ones doorsteps. Writing about grief is similar to cleaning out an attic. Every so often you have to go up there, weed through the collection of memories and throw away that which you don't need any more. If you don't, the excess weight will eventually weaken the floorboards and send them crashing down on your head. She weaves a tapestry of love and loss that blankets her world as she shows people the valuable lessons a person's death can teach another about life ~ and how life is really a long series of little deaths. It shows how one can actually write themselves out of the clutches of grief and into a world of loving remembrance ~ and it reveals that love is indeed the greatest motivator. "In the Twinkle of an Eye" is testament that anyone who loves can write.