And from readers of the blog

Heartbreaking and honest. This collection is simply exquisite. Rita speaks and writes for many of us.

"The awful relief, the fearsome comfort, of being known." Some dichotomies are nothing more than wordplay, pure pretense. This one is pure truth.

Rita's writing is beautiful, intelligent, transcendent. She copes with a co-author who morphs, disappears, and refuses to edit. But these reports will likely make your heart hurt and brain burn (or possibly the other way around).