Memoir

Sisters Peggy Occhiuzzo and Susan Chamberlain Shipe put their creative heads together, sorted through hundreds of "slides" and old photos, and separately wrote their memories. This beautiful book is a work of their hearts. 

Every family has its secrets and sacraments. "This memoir seeks to inform and encourage those behind us to know where they came from and what makes them who they are today."

Writer Susan Chamberlain Shipe, her husband Lowell, and son Michael moved from urban South Florida in September of 1988 to a 14-acre farmstead in the Blue Ridge Mountain Range of northwest North Carolina. Thirty years of living their very best life during their midlife years. The stories written in these pages share the author's frustrations, fears, and fight to live the pioneering life in both high heels and hiking boots! 'Some of the tales are hysterical and looking back I consider those thirty years my very best."

Author Susan Chamberlain Shipe one day looked around and said to her husband, "What if something were to happen to us? Who would sort through thirty years of living?" Knowing the answer to that question she decided right then and there to change the course of their lives. This is THAT story.