Pivotal Moments (Paperback)

Patricia Peck was the ninth of nine children, in a house that looked, from the outside, like a wonderful family. It wasn’t. But this isn’t a book about what happened to her. It’s a book about what she did after. Story by story—not in order, because her life never came in order—Pivotal Moments follows Patricia from a childhood she spent decades learning to survive into a life she never could have planned: skydiving at retirement age, riding a zipline through fear she named out loud, taking a “mystery trip” with no destination because she trusted she’d know when to stop, and sitting beside her husband of more than forty years as he told her, gently, that he wasn’t going home. These are true stories about what happens when a woman finally stops waiting to feel ready and starts trusting the next right step—even when the next right step looks like jumping out of a plane. If you’ve ever needed proof that a hard beginning doesn’t get the last word, Patricia Peck has spent eighty-three years collecting it.