Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life

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It’s a profitable business, the business of fear. For every terrifying scenario, there is a strategically placed antidote for sale alongside it.” I was quite impressed with how she handled her ex-husband throughout the work. It’s respectful and delicate. Her memories, even the bad ones, are soaked in the love she had for him – the love they had for each other. They were both Lost Boys; tragedy forced him out of Neverland and her further in.

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Edit: The blinded-by-influencer commenters below will learn they've been fooled. Maybe not now, maybe not for a long time. But the truths of BM will come out. There is hope. Rejecting the capitalistic path of others, Brianna Madia always sought to take the road less traveled. So she bought a beat-up orange van named Bertha and set out to travel the deserts of the American West with two dogs and her husband. Madia’s journey – from married to single and from lost to found – is about more than #vanlife or minimalism or dogs; it’s a memoir that explores both the outer world and her inner self.Leave it to modern man to go out and decimate the natural world so they can display its remnants in their living room.” As horribly cliché as it sounds, it felt for the first time that my soul had perhaps lived once before. And if it had, it most certainly lived here.” But depression, addiction, and suicide were a part of our stories as well; the more unspoken, unfortunate hallmark of those who can’t help but base the value of their existence on whether or not it is seen as beautiful or worthwhile.” To be inside those canyon walls was to be cradled in the arms of the earth itself. I felt hidden out there. Safe. As if I could just slip away and be carried off to rest among Indian paintbrush and coyote willow. Left there undisturbed, untouched. Buried somewhere in the sand like pottery.”

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However, pursuing a life of intention isn’t always what it seems. In fact, at times it was downright boring, exhausting, and even desperate—when the van overheated and she was forced to pull over on a lonely stretch of Wyoming highway; when the weather was bitterly cold and the water jugs froze beneath her as she slept in the parking lot of her office; when she worried about money, her marriage, and the looming question mark of her future. But she was living a life true to herself, come what may, and that made all the difference. Madia is an excellent writer. You can’t ask more from a writer than to be as funny and honest as she is about her personal life, to be able to take a bad experience and laugh at herself in retrospect, to be truthful about not knowing what the hell she was—and is—doing half the time. But she did it anyway, trying and failing, and then trying again anyway. Her bravery shines through each pitfall. Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways.” Well, I sobbed my way through this entire book, devouring it in just a few days. I've been anxiously awaiting this book's release ever since Brianna first shared the exciting news of the publication. I have followed Brianna's journey for years, so my review may be biased, but her writing is what drew me to her in the first place. She writes with a raw honesty and vulnerability that is both poetic and hauntingly beautiful. Brianna comes across as deeply human, as a woman who has accepted herself for her faults, her mistakes, her regrets, and her charms. The book screams, "Here I am, take me or leave me." She is unapologetically herself, which is something I deeply admire.

But I suppose that’s what they say about parents. They usually want their children to go out and become all the things they never thought to be, do all the things they didn’t think they could.”