Journal of a Superfluous Woman

<I>Journal of a Superfluous Woman: A Collection of Essays</I> documents a woman's struggle to understand life and her place in it. Her experience with breast cancer forms the catalyst for an examination of conscience--a looking back in order that she might move forward. These essays attempt to put into perspective childhood memories race religion relationships career choices training versus education illness death and a perception that the world still undervalues the role of the unwed and childless.</p><p>It is said that she who writes about herself and her time writes about all people for all time. Here I. R. King offers herself as a metaphor through which some of life's foibles and paradoxes can be examined in the quest for improvement. <I>Journal of A Superfluous Woman: A Collection of Essays</I> is a journey of reflection and introspection. It is a quest for the unknown and the unknowable an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable and a search for meaning purpose and wholeness. The recognition that duality is imbedded in the depths of reality forms the basis for creating peace within and without and for moving toward balance equipoise and love.</p>