| |
From
the Back Cover --
Recently widowed, Sabrina
Olensky returns to her home in Ohio, where she seeks solace from the
peaceful lake setting of her childhood as she confronts issues that have
destroyed relationships with both her surviving children. Told partly
through flashbacks by both Sabrina and her college sweetheart Francisco,
Balancing Act is a tale beginning with Sabrina’s well meaning but
overprotective mother whose forced involvement in her adult child’s life
results in a horror which Sabrina hides for forty years. Underlying the
story is Francisco’s unwavering though bewildered devotion as Sabrina
deserts him and ultimately marries someone else. Balancing Act is a
novel about both life’s cruelties and times of joy, and how the
balancing of the good with the bad ultimately leads to an unanticipated
new level of relationship. Meade Goodenow Saeedi grew up in northern
Ohio. She worked for thirty-five years as a rehabilitation counselor for
the State of Maryland and the D.C. Department of Veterans Affairs. Now
retired, Meade and her husband Leon live half the year in Maryland, and
the other half of the year in Puerto Rico. Their daughter Akiba lives in
New York City. You are welcome to visit Meade at
www.meadesaeedi.com
Author biography --
Recently retired,
Meade Goodenow Saeedi worked for more than thirty years as a
Rehabilitation Counselor with the State of Maryland and a Counseling
Psychologist for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, DC.
A polio survivor from the 1950’s, Meade grew up in Ohio and earned a
Bachelors degree with Distinction in Political Science from Ohio State
University. After serving as a VISTA volunteer at a Job Corps Center in
North Carolina, she moved to the District of Columbia, where she
completed a Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling at The George
Washington University. Later, Meade completed her Ph.D. in Public
Administration and International Relations at the University of
Maryland, and she continues her lifelong quest for learning by listening
to college lectures on DVD, where she gets to ‘study all the stuff I
really wanted to know but couldn’t cram into my overcrowded schedules’.
Meade and her
husband of more than thirty-five years, Leon, continue to live in
suburban Washington DC, and they now enjoy spending their winters in
Puerto Rico. In Maryland, Meade is part of a group of women who are
active in weekly activities such as tubing down the Potomac River,
meeting at a coffee shop to chat, or just doing whatever someone in the
group comes up with week to week. She also works out daily at a gym to
maintain her health and spends the summer boating on the Chesapeake
Bay. In Puerto Rico, Meade participates in a yoga class three days a
week, shares her DVD’s with friends, and enjoys cruising around nearby
islands on the weekends. She and Leon travel throughout the world as
much as they can, and Meade had been to Leon’s native home of Iran
twice.
Meade and Leon have
one daughter who lives in New York.
Meade Saeedi
|
|
