Before my mother, Vita got a brain tumor. Before my sister, Martha committed suicide. Before my father, Tommy got bone cancer. Before my favorite Aunt Yolanda got breast cancer. Then everything I had fell apart. And when it came back together again, it looked very different.

Between 1990 and 1994, I lost four family members in four years. Vita was the last one to go after a ten-year battle with chronic illness and disability. Four years after she died, I decided to leave my career and stock options behind to do something more meaningful with my life.

What emerged was the book, Vita’s Will: Real Life Lessons about Life, Death & Moving On, a story about my family experiences and the most important life lessons I learned in the process.

The discoveries I made changed my life forever and I’d like to share them with you. I hope they will help you deal serenely (or at least sanely) with your own life challenges, from the tragic to the trivial.