<p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Have you ever traveled life's treadmill of disasters: hit valleys such as parental split and career aspirations? Then, did serious diseases such as insulin-dependent diabetes and heart disease become your everyday partner?&nbsp; Ascending mountains, the author has achieved academic and artistic accomplishments, developed lasting friendships, and found love.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Award-winning writer/poet/actress and vocalist Merilee Kaufman has ascended to the top, sharing a marriage of 50 years and coping with her husband's Parkinson's Disease.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Share the strength of this creative woman, and let her heart-warming account inspire your life.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>