A memoir of one woman's life viewed through the lens of her relationship with her spiritual teacher of over 20 years. Her candid, touching and humorous stories are told in a voice that is authentic, wry and irreverent, yet always coloured with the note of longing for God, that characterised her quest for something real from earliest childhood. As she elaborates on various stepping stones and stumbling blocks encountered on her journey -- including the birth of her son, several failed relationships and her wild and highly successful ride as a national sales executive, her stories uniquely parallel the steps of any traditional spiritual path aimed at human transformation. They also help to dispel the myths and expose the assumptions about enlightenment and other fantasy solutions to the hard work of simply being human, that are so common on the Path. She does this by shedding an honest, heart-felt light on the real gifts and graces.