How We Got Here

Here we have the essays of six women who want to share their experiences of How They Got Here. And impressive those experiences are: escaping humble small towns to succeed, wrestling with family and career after the early death of a husband, rising above the challenges of a discordant family, reliving the stories of Irish heritage.But that's not all: Stories of driving down hair-pin curves in the mountains of Sicily, fighting the way to shore in a hurricane, surviving an automobile...
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Here we have the essays of six women who want to share their experiences of How They Got Here. And impressive those experiences are: escaping humble small towns to succeed, wrestling with family and career after the early death of a husband, rising above the challenges of a discordant family, reliving the stories of Irish heritage.But that's not all: Stories of driving down hair-pin curves in the mountains of Sicily, fighting the way to shore in a hurricane, surviving an automobile crash on a Boston bridge, childhood adventures in an Oklahoma oil camp, teenage gymnastics in a Slovakian-American gym in posh Greenwich, Connecticut, maintaining an inter-cultural friendship. How these women got here, as you will see, is a combination of ability and foresight. All six developed professional careers during a time when women had to fight for them. Read these short essays from these women's lives, sometimes funny, sometimes courageous, often difficult, but always interesting discussions of how they got here.