Doreen Orion
http://www.doreenorion.com/blog
When Tim first announced he wanted to "chuck it all" and travel around the country in a converted bus for a year, I gave this profound and potentially life-altering notion all the thoughtful consideration it deserved.
"Why can't you be like a normal husband with a midlife crisis and have an affair or buy a Corvette?" I demanded, adding, "I will never, ever, EVER live on a bus." What do you get when you cram married shrinks -- one in a midlife crisis, the other his materialistic, wise-cracking wife -- two cats who hate each other and a Standard Poodle who loves licking them all, into a bus for a year? I started my blog when we started our travels in 2004 and my memoir, QUEEN OF THE ROAD, about my dysfunctional, multi-species family's travels to and travails in the US is being published this June by Random House. As millions of baby boomers reach middle age, they reflect back on their lives, as well as look ahead to what retirement will bring. QUEEN OF THE ROAD is a much needed tale about not settling: in life, at work, or in relationships. It is about choosing the unconventional road and surviving the ruts and wrong turns along the way. It is a sassy, heart-felt account of married, mid-40s psychiatrists (and polar opposites) who seem to have it all, only to squeeze it all into 340 square feet. It is not only a memoir of adventure and misadventure (fire, armed robbery and finding ourselves in a nudist RV park, to name a few.)
