Introduction: Text & Audio, Narrated by Cindi Lamb (3 min.)

Introduction 

Hi! Thanks for reading or listening to this right now. I appreciate it.

All of the stories published are true.  

In 1979, on the way to the grocery store on a Saturday morning, a drunk driver paralyzed my daughter, Laura Lamb, from the neck down. Laura was just five months old.

I worked with Candy Lightner and Bill Bronrott to help launch MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, in 1980. The goal: end the maiming and killing of innocent people by drunk drivers on our nation’s roads.  

For a while, Candy was the president of MADD, and I was the vice-president.  And my daughter Laura was the fuel that helped to launch MADD into the national spotlight.  That’s because Laura was a visual; a living, sweet-looking, smart little girl, who did not move; she was a glaring reminder of the 800 injuries caused by drunk drivers every day. 

The stories I write here, however, are about more than MADD or perseverance, or a hatred that eats you every day.

These stories are also about earthquakes and romance, passion and my three husbands, fishing and hunting, and hootin’ it up with my family and friends.  

There are some cool as hell spiritual stories here, too, the kind that feel like goosebumps on your brain and make your arm hair stand on end.  The kind of story that’s hard to believe, but I KNOW it’s TRUE!

These stories are sometimes incongruous; surreal yet logical; spiritual and profane, embracing both the good parts and the bad parts. 

And the wonderfully exuberant, titillating, and funny parts, too!

Thanks so much for being here,

Love,

Cindi