Writing Voices from the Mist: The Last Days of Dian Fossey (working title) has taken me on an unexpected journey of self-awareness and healing. I’ve learned more about myself in the last year than in the first six decades of my life. It takes awareness of a childhood trauma to begin to heal. Some of us become aware later than others.

I'm retracing my steps with my friend Dian Fossey, whose passion for mountain gorillas led to their narrow escape from extinction. Dian had childhood aspirations of becoming a veterinarian; however, early academic struggles transformed her dream into a legendary one. Her deep-seated desire to help animals is one of the most remarkable modern-day species survival accounts we have.