You can take scary risks--even when you're well over that fabled hill. Fish-out-of-water Ginger Lawrence grapples with colorful volunteer exploits in Latin America. Ginger is not a typical volunteer on her Gap year. This book is the surprising journey of a woman of "a certain age," chucking a pampered would-be glamorous life as a Hollywood ten percenter to live in an elbow-to-elbow Guatemalan house while teaching English to the poverty-stricken indomitable children of the city garbage dump...

Imagine sitting at the dining room table of a treasured frienda creator of hospitable, soul-nourishing spaces. She eyes you over the rims of her glasses and breaks into the stories of her life, always leaving you to make your own applications. This was Ginger Lawrences clear callto comfort in the same way she had been comforted, her steady cadence lending the wisdom of her years. These stories of her journey of faith are always carefully interwoven with healing and hope.Ginger has ...