As Far As The I Can See

As Far As The I Can See is a fast-paced memoir set in a top-rated hotel in the Yucatan jungle, Mexico.

The crazy year begins after the author heads to help her friends Molly and Luis Felipe, the owners of the property. Out of work and a relationship, Julie is looking to reinvent herself. But the day after arrival, her friends take off and leave Julie to run the hotel, with no Spanish speaking ability and even less knowledge of the hotel business.

With a wild international cast of characters working for the hotel and cut off from the world, Julie ricochets from one disturbing encounter to another. Confrontations with violent employees, theft, drunken chefs and frightening talismans all have their part to play.

After a life-changing year in the jungle, can Julie reconcile her feelings and find herself?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ever since I was a child listening to my Austrian-born grandfather tell stories about his twenty-four years living in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, which was Indian territory before Oklahoma became a state, I have been been mesmerized by the stories of real people.  In those early years I also often accompanied my pysician father on house-calls. I saw that patients are real people who have real lives, not just symptoms.  They had yards littered with bicycles and kind words for a child.  The idea was reinforced in me by my father that people’s illnesses were only a part of their lives, just as their lives may be a part of their pain. With that knowledge, a therapist-writer was nurtured in me.

I am the author of two books, “Too Young to Remember,” and “Oral History and the Holocaust,”  based on survivors’ stories, plus various poems, plays and several one-woman performances which I performed nationally.  A televised cutting of Sarah’s Song, the musical for which I wrote words and books, was nominated for a regional Emmy.

“As Far As the I Can See” is my first memoir.  It is based on the`year I spent working and living at an exotic jungle hotel in Mexico’s Costa Maya, learning many life-shaping difficult lessons.