This feisty octogenarian's story does not fit the conventional category of autobiography or memoir. Nor should it, for Dorothy S. Conlon's life has always stretched the boundaries of convention. Her tale begins in Japan, where she was born the youngest in a missionary family. Next, she joined the Foreign Service, first on her own and later with her husband and sons, and the reader is whisked through amazing sojourns over almost 30 years in Asian countries, from Taiwan through southeast Asia as far west as Pakistan. She studied yoga with Acharya T. Krishnamacharya in Chennai, performed in a Chinese opera in Taipei and watched her sons play with two orphaned tiger cubs in Rangoon, Burma. After the untimely loss of her sons and husband, Conlon returned to solo travel, combining service learning, teaching and volunteering, documented in her first book, At Home in the World: Memoirs of a Traveling Woman. Her second book, Born With Wings: Experiencing Life in Exotic Lands, is an adventure story, a travel history, and an entertaining and courageous account of a life lived with joy, tragedy, wit and wisdom.