Girl on the Prow


Sara Jeanne Duncan Widness

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When Life hands you lemons —
Hang on for the ride !

Sara Widness did just that! She played a pregnant game of ping pong in the psychiatric ward, dressed to the nines on the world’s most famous train, baked eighteen loaves of bread a day at her country store, entertained journalists while dining on risotto draped in gold foil…

Vestal virgins deserve adjectives like vulnerable and gullible. Women should run as fast as they can away from these traits. She didn’t. At the end of the marathon, her shadows — or most of them — were plunging onto her finish line. Shadows are supplicants, begging her to forgive herself, or to forgive others or simply to accept fate.

Sara Widness did whatever she had to do to put food on her family’s table. This included stints as: reporter for a national wire service, lifestyle editor for a daily newspaper, freelance writer for magazines, radio host, proprietor of country store, teacher, publicist for ski resorts and New York-based public relations companies, founder of two boutique public relations agencies boasting world-class clients, and founder and proprietor of a small inn in rural Vermont. She holds an undergraduate degree
in English Literature from Stanford University.