Through eleven partially linked fictional stories we follow
Danielle as she splits from a long-term marriage to find her way as
a single woman living alone in a foreign country. Her search for
both physical and emotional contentment and independence leads her
to take risks in life and love from jumping off waterfalls, to
discovering a gorgeous young caveman, and learning the art of
marijuana growing and harvesting. Follow her journey as she
intertwines intimate personal insights with wild adventures. The
first story Of Time and the Mountain reveals that beginning a new
life and building a house in an isolated part of a foreign country,
Costa Rica, is rampant with challenges: physical, emotional and
personal. The frayed threads of a long term marriage begin to
unravel one by one. Learning a new language, meeting new people,
living in a strange culture, subsisting in a primitive environment
without basic necessities and learning to build a house in the
jungle, bring a need for a little respite wherever it can be found.
And find it Danielle does, whether it's going to local festivals in
the mountain villages in San Anselmo, or looking for archeological
artifacts in Fault Lines. Danielle travels back and forth between
the U.S. and Costa Rica finding adventure wherever she is. New
relationships blossom, grow strong, wilt, revive or die, but all
are worthwhile experiences. With Danielle's newborn independence,
taking risks in both love and life becomes necessity. A U.S. doctor
is shocked by her little friend in My Friend George. Is there a
real monster plying the Florida waters in Alligator Dreams? The
apparition of a cave dweller appears to her through waterfall
curtains in God's Caveman. She is horrified by the 'dog-eat-dog'
world in Puppy Love. At turns she is terrified and exhilarated by
challenging the waterfall in Fear of Falling. Getting to know
Adrian in Costa Rica brings new life and love into her life in
Getting to Know You - Costa Rica. She experiences his illegal
lifestyle and his paranoia when the Feds appear in the California
fields in Getting To Know You - Humboldt County. Join Danielle as
she deals with both the highs and lows of her adventurous life; how
she deals with conflict, has fun, learns patience and gains
contentment as her life blooms into full flower. In the vein of
Andrea Barrett's Servants of the Map: Stories, Green stitches her
stories together with the lightest thread into a jagged line of
passion for love, learning, insight, and adventure. Take a sample
of Alison Wright's Learning to Breathe One Women's Journey and a
swatch of Anais Nin's journals and you've got an idea of Free to
Bloom. Author Biography Though born in California, and living in
France as a child, Jill Green's formative years were spent on
Florida's Gulf Coast. After college at the University of Florida,
marriage, two children - one deaf, she started teaching, helped run
two businesses and after 30 years, got divorced. What a turn life
took Now living in two countries, Sarasota, Florida and Costa Rica,
she forgot her French, but learned Spanish. Living alone took many
adjustments, eventually she has become a self-sufficient,
adventuresome individual, traveling the world, volunteering with
many organizations, climbing mountains, surfing the seas and
teaching ESL in Costa Rica and Florida. After many years working
and bringing up a family she has finally become a published writer
with her book of connected short stories Free to Bloom about life
in Costa Rica and the United States, hopefully the first of many.
Although she has written stories and essays for small magazines,
her next big project is a memoir. The trials, tribulations, joys
and sorrows of living in an extensive marriage, learning
independence, following a world trekking daughter and educating a
deaf son among other things. Visit Jill's personal blog at http:
//www.costajill.com and her Free to Bloom blog at http:
//freetobloombook.com
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