Reporting from the front lines on the authors daily battle with a body and a mind that increasingly refuse to cooperate, captures this struggle with a simplicity, elegance and strength that is characteristic of its author and her lifetime of work. May Sarton's eagerly awaited journals have recorded her life as a single, woman writer and, in later years, as a woman confronting old age. She completed this pilgrimage through her eighty-second year a few months before she died in 1995.