Severe abandonment issues dominated Kathy's childhood, adolescent, and even adult relationships and experiences. She was pregnant at sixteen, with four children by the time she turned twenty-four years of age. Kathy lost a six-year-old child and then a ten-year-old, three months apart, before her thirty-second birthday. Her second child, ill from the age of six, didn’t die until he was forty-three.

But in the meantime, Kathy travelled the world, visiting over thirty countries. Eventually, she moved to Tanzania in East Africa, and created a (photography) safari company there. For six years she was the administrator, marketing director, chief financial officer, travel agent, and driver of the safari-modified truck – the only woman in the world fulfilling such a role at that time.

The following stories are only the tip of an iceberg – a glacial mass that yearns to confront, to challenge, to learn, and ultimately, to heal..