Join Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, the mother-daughter travel team and publishers of Big Blend Magazines, for Big Blend Radio’s Quality of Life Show, broadcasting live from Florence, the Antique Capital of Colorado. This episode features Anna Penenberg, author of “Dancing in the Narrows: A Mother-Daughter Odyssey Through Chronic Illness.”

Dancing in the Narrows (July 7, She Writes Press) chronicles a mother and daughter’s multiyear journey through illness and trauma. At sixteen, Anna’s youngest daughter, Dana, is stricken with a mysterious and debilitating condition, eventually diagnosed as Lyme disease. Desperate to find a cure, the two women are thrust into the established medical world, then far beyond. Full of adventure, humor, and blind faith, Dancing in the Narrows is an inspiring story of self-discovery as a single mother fights to save the life of her child. 

Featured music is “Lulu’s Lullaby” byAllison August.