Where Have I Been All My Life?

A Journey Toward Love and Wholeness

Cheryl Rice

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781631529184
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Where Have I Been All My Life? is a compelling memoir recounting one woman’s journey through grief and a profound feeling of unworthiness to wholeness and healing. It begins with the chillingly sudden death of Rice’s mother, and is followed by her foray into the center of mourning. With wisdom, grace, and humor, Rice recounts the grief games she plays in an effort to resurrect her mother; her efforts to get her therapist, who she falls desperately in love with, to run away with her; and the transformation of her husband from fantasy man to ordinary guy to superhero. In the process, she experiences aching revelations about her family and her past—and realizes what she must leave behind, and what she can carry forward with her.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Homesick
• April Fools’ Day
• David
• Promises to Keep
• Losing It
• Eye Contact
• Unavailable: A Brief History of My Not-So-Romantic Life
• Grief Games
• Love and Longing
• Kelly
• A Daughter’s Choice
• Calling in the One
• Hunger
• Offers He Couldn’t Refuse … Until He Did
• Mom, Where Are You?
• I Can’t Hear You
• They Did the Best They Could
• Embedded
• Couch Surfing
• Dark Chocolate and True Crime
• Into the Woods
• Disconnected
• My Saving Gracie
• Letter to My Unborn Child
• WWMD? (What Would Mom Do?)
• Finally, a Flurry—Okay, an Avalanche—of Anger
• Game Day
• Worlds Collide
• Finding Frieda: A Dream Remembered
• Ghostwriter
• Out of the Woods and into My Life
• Strike Up the Band
• I Married the Green Lantern
• Dear Mom
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author