A Journey Home: Lessons in Living as Six Baby Boomer Siblings Spend Two Years Caring for Their Dying Mom

“A Journey Home” is the true story of a prominent Florida family of six baby boomer siblings who, upon learning that their mother, Vicki, had a terminal diagnosis in 1996, put their own lives on the back burner to help usher her home. Vicki, a vivacious, cigarette-smoking, old South original, makes her own rules and lives by them. Forthright and sassy, she is a liberated woman with a servant's heart who won’t miss a Sunday in the pew. Her six children, each traditional yet fiercely independent, are cut from the same cloth. “A Journey Home” is at once an inspiring look at one woman’s authentic, often uproarious life; it is also a serious journey. Through Vicki’s children, readers explore difficult, timely questions of how to balance the needs of young families, professional careers and busy, often over-committed lives with saying a “good” goodbye to aging parents. In the process, some of life’s most important lessons are revealed. Imagine Tuesdays with Morrie meets the Ya Ya Sisterhood.