A toddler in an emotionally explosive and unstable family has her leg amputated. In spite of significant hurdles, she powers through to become a successful career woman and equally successful single parent.
Wendy Sura Thomson is a 5-star author of Summon the Tiger, The Third Order, The Man from Burnt Island, and Postcards from the Future (as a contributing author.) She has several more works underway. She lives in Michigan with her beloved Setters and covets sipping coffee outdoors first thing in the morning, rain or shine., listening to the waterfall and the birds and watching [often with amusement] the pups explore.
Two things can happen when a person is in a dysfunctional family: they can pattern their lives from it, and continue the dysfunction into the next generation, or they can decide to be anything but what they experienced.
The first alternative is, sadly, very common. The second takes a courageous soul... they might not know what to do, but they certainly know what they will NOT do. It takes imagination. It takes determination. The second road breaks the cycle.
If you are unfortunate enough to have been in a dysfunctional environment, I encourage you to find the imagination and courage to find the second path.
Book Excerpt
Summon the Tiger
I was not immune to her barbs: one afternoon she decided to host a tea for the neighbors across the street and next door. As we were sitting there around the table, she smiled at me and said, “Wendy, you should get a nanny for Bill. You are not home to fix him supper, and that’s giving him high blood pressure. Since you can’t take care of him, maybe you can hire someone who can.” Oh my. And I remember Jack getting so angry at his mother for saying something about his wife that he blurted out, “You do not talk to an Officer’s wife that way!” Kay got into a physical fight with Kathy’s John to the point that he shoved her. She was unbearable.
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