"Motherhood was not my lifelong dream."

Highly committed to her medical career, she was intent on pursuing brain surgery. Utterly content as a single girl, she considered a call to celibacy. One husband and four living children later, her best laid plans had clearly gone awry. Would her medical background prove a help or hindrance? As a relapsing perfectionist, would she be crushed by the weight of her own expectations?

Hopefully Flawed weaves cathartic poetry with retrospective prose to celebrate a true story about answering the call to motherhood, and the freedom of finding meaning in the mess. Flaws are inevitable. Hope is possible.