Out Of The Fog! A Story of Survival, Faith and Courage is for those seeking a happy and joyous life, free from addiction. (Jimmy Dean and/or Dolly Parton)..
Smith says her mantra today is, I can\'t change the wind, but I can adjust my sails.
In between travel escapades and adventures, she spends day-time creating exotic yummy recipes and at night, stargazing.
Smith lives in Old Bisbee in Arizona\'s High Sonoran desert.
Senator Wayne Morse in DC, Arts administrator, realtor, lobbyist for the Arts, director of Santa Cruz CA and Springfield MO Arts Commissions, to newspaper reporter/feature writer, host of her own ocean-going radio show, and innkeeper.
She has enjoyed a zillion careers from art school model, actor and chef, to Constituent Liaison for U.
S. (Thirty years later, Lawrence Ferlinghetti would be a regular guest/crew aboard Smith\'s hot pink sailboat.) After studying International Economics and Foreign Affairs at George Washington University, Smith earned a degree from Grenoble University, France.
Smith spent her teenaged years in San Francisco\'s North Beach as a beatnik, hanging out with Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, and other Beat writers.
Since then, she has lived in and explored many far-flung places, mostly alone, just because they were there.
At age 11, she spent the school-year in Scotland, devoting free time to poking around dark and dank dungeons.
About author(s): Sandra CH Smith, an American-born child of immigrant parents, says adventuring is in her DNA.
The book illustrates the power of hope, Faith and Courage in facing the challenges of recovery and in healing fragile relationships.
Out of the Fog! provides painful but compelling insights into overcoming addiction as well as solving mother-daughter issues.
Smith\'s book offers a heart-warming, sometimes terrifying testament to triumph over adversity.
She follows the constellations (until a fellow boater points out that they move!) from San Francisco to the Polynesian Triangle somewhere off Easter Island. or radar, and using just a compass and dead-reckoning, she embarks, mostly alone, sometimes with her rebellious teenaged daughter, on a 7-year spiritual odyssey in the Pacific.
At 8 years sober, Smith buys a sailboat, teaches herself to sail without electronic navigation equipt.
The author shares how she learned to shove fear aside and step into a rewarding adventurous life.
This is the inspiring Story of a 35-year old woman who had everything-- until Demon Rum crept in to steal it all away.
Out Of The Fog! A Story of Survival, Faith and Courage is for those seeking a happy and joyous life, free from addiction
