Karen Hatch-Taylor is a poet, a parent, and a survivor. She describes in the verses herein how she met her favorite author online and bridged ten thousand miles to win his heart, and then how she endured first a tennis-ball-sized brain tumor and subsequent surgery, then a battle with cancer and the discovery that her middle child is autistic. Truly her life, told here in her eloquent poetry, has been a mosaic of light and dark moments, of extraordinary pain, extraordinary love, and extraordinary survival against an unimaginable assault of stressful events and dire medical conditions. She hopes that this volume will inspire others who face adversity.