Runaway Mama

Running away never occurred to Kate Adams, until her husband Clifford inadvertently let it slip that he had had a fling with a woman half his age. Kate was devastated; she had trusted him! But what could she do? She couldn’t leave; her job was to care for their children while Cliff traveled all over the world, finding exclusive stories to enhance his career in journalism. When a trip meant covering a news story in Florida, Kate would ask, “Can I go with you this time, please?” Clifford would playfully pat her on the head, smile, and say, “Katie, I’ll be so busy you wouldn’t enjoy it.”

Did he really think I couldn’t enjoy sunny Florida in the winter, by myself? It was after their four children finished college and were deep in their chosen careers that Kate, with Clifford’s permission, took a long life-changing trip across the country in her car, a trip destined to change the way she saw her life, change the way she wanted to live, sending Kate into unforeseen and challenging directions that neither she nor her husband had ever expected.