Naked Cartwheels in the Snow is a memoir that is in process. I plan to release it in installments and solicit reader feedback as the memoir evolves and is shaped over time. The broad themes are: a family in which there is love and joy but also the dark cloud of my mother’s serious brain health issues, which resulted in many long psychiatric hospitalizations; what it’s like to be the sandwich generation, caring for your own little ones as your aging parents become needy and dependent; secrets, those within families but also those that were the norm, almost di rigeuer, in the 60s and 70s; mental health treatment in the 60s and 70s (think hospitalizations that might last a year or two); as well as medical genetics, epigenetics, and intergenerational patterns regarding trauma and how these variables manifested in our family. Oh, and it may also hold appeal for those who were a part of the last generation to: roam free and wild as children who were allowed to be outside all day without benefit of a cell phone or parental supervision; master the fine art of making conversation with strangers, because how else were you going to get yourself to your destination when the map failed you?; meet romantic partners the old fashioned way, before apps were invented; feel that the Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music were special because, after all, they were only shown one time a year; and learn to write in cursive.