Inspired by the eloquent words of Nadine Stair, this absorbing collection is about women making choices. Some speak of lost opportunities: "I wait too long; I watch the moment pass / till only ashes stir upon the grass" or things they would do differently: "If I could begin again... let me begin again by being a better daughter." More often, however, these women proclaim a sense of satisfaction with their lives and "would not change a single breathless moment."
(from the publisher)

Edited by Sandra Haldeman Martz

Contents:
- Foreword
- If I Had My Life to Live Over by Nadine Stair
- Requiem by Martha B. Jordan
- Loving Jerry Jan Epton Seale
- Small Life by Lizabeth Carpenter
- Broken Vows by Joan Connor
- A Palsied Girl Goes to the Beach by Nan Hunt
- The Keeper of Spaces by Enid Shomer
- Adoption by Alison Kolodinsky
- The Sacrifice by Shirley Vogler Meister
- Holy Places by Stephany Brown
- Morning News Maggie Ann Grace
- Getting Ready by Catherine Boyd
- Spiderplant by Terri L. Jewell
- Life Support Dorothy Howe Brooks
- Art As Life Anne Menebroker
- Résumé by Dori Appel
- Mother Land by Linda Wasmer Smith
- A Woman's Choice by Jacklyn W. Potter
- Maire, Who Feeds the Wild Cat? by Pat Schneider
- Imaginary Bonds by Bonnie Michael
- The Scorpion Wore Pink Shoes by Janice Levy
- Good Intentions by Doris Vanderlipp Manley
- Sunspots by Barbara Lucas
- On the Nature of Sin by Sandra Redding
- The Woven Wall by Kennette H. Wilkes
- White Horses by Tricia Lande
- October Fire by Bettie M. Sellers
- One Last Time by Lori Russell
- It Is Enough Ruth Daigon
- Five Years Later Maril Crabtree
- Praying in the Dark by Gailmarie Pahmeier
- A Weaver by Barbara L. Thomas
- Orchards and Supermarkets by Rina Ferrarelli
- Divorce by Ellin Carter
- Vietnam by Jennifer Lagier
- Getting On with It by Grace Butcher
- Cauliflower Beach by Carol Schwalberg
- The first time I married by Karen Ethelsdattar
- Good-Bye Prince Charming by Claudia Van Gerven
- Old Friend Sends a Chain Letter by Therese Becker
- Woman by Lillian Morrison
- The Choice by Leslea Newman
- Bittersweet by Fran Portley
- Forbidden Lover by Susan Eisenberg
- The Life I Didn't Live by Joanne Seltzer
- Swamp by Kirsten Backstrom
- Amazing Grace by Susan Vreeland
- If I Could Begin Again by Sue Saniel Elkind
- Shopping Expedition by Elisavietta Ritchie
- Hot Flash by Linda Keegan
- On Loving a Younger Man by Alice Friman
- Ripening by Joanne McCarthy
- Eating Cantaloupe by Midge Farmer
- The Woman with the Wild-Grown Hair by Nita Penfold
- Strawberries by Leslie Nyman
- Old Women's Choices by Ruth Harriet Jacobs
- Dearest Margaret by Eleanot Byers
- Shrinking Down by Janet Carncross Chandler
- Keepsakes by Elaine Rothman
- Counterpoint by Lynn Kozma
- Salamanders by Randeane Tetu
- Advice to Beginners by Ellen Kort