Who Will I Be for the Rest of My Life?

For Women Looking Toward the Changes and Challenges of the Middle Years

Women of all ages wonder if they can ever accomplish or . . .experience all of their dreams, and especially at those significant moments in the crossroads of life. But few women dare broach their personal concerns with anyone else and are left to battle their fears and questions alone.

Two women, friends since college days when Anita Higman was eighteen and Ruth Vaughn was thirty-eight open their hearts and let readers in on their season of sharing that began on Anita's fortieth birthday. You'll chuckle and get teary-eyed at Anita's compelling questions and Ruth's insightful responses.

Fresh, honest observations on significant matters that concern all women relationships, anger, sex, appearance, fear, worry, priorities, focus, sacrifice, and service.

Delightfully wise and witty exchanges between an older Christian mentor and her younger friend

As a freshman at Southern Nazarene University, Anita Higman met Ruth Vaughn, the woman who was to become her mentor and her friend. After earning a degree in speech communication and psychology, she worked as copywriter, and a production assistant at an advertising agency. An accomplished writer, she has finished six books including poetry, nonfiction for children, and drama. She has written for radio, television, advertising, newspaper, and the stage.

Having recently turned the corner on forty, Anita found that the strain of mid-life was real and she needed the support of other women to help her approach the questions and worries facing her at this newest crossroads of her life. The correspondence exchanged with Ruth Vaughn after Anita's fortieth birthday form the season of sharing covered in Who Will I Be For the Rest of My Life?, a work Anita wanted to write so that other women would not be alone as they approached the middle years.

Anita, her husband, Peter, and their two children make their home in Texas.

Ruth Vaughn was a professor of creative writing and drama at Southern Nazarene University , Oklahoma, when she met Anita Higman. Though Ruth was rounding the corner on mid-life while Anita was just a freshman, Ruth bonded with the young woman and formed the steadfast friendship at the heart of Who Will I Be For the Rest of My Life?

Experienced both in grief and joy, Ruth was, and still is, a caring and capable mentor, passing on the wisdom of a life lived following the call of God. In the new book her honest observations about the important matters at the crossroads of life anger, appearance, fear, worry, and relationships are passed on to all readers in the words of a caring friend.

With a B.A. and an M.A. from The University of Kansas and a Ph.D. from American University, Ruth has written more than thirty-five books, countless speeches, movie scripts, TV productions, and musicals, and plays. Publishing her first book a book of letters written to girls in a youth group at the age of twenty-two, Ruth has made being a mentor for younger women a part of her life for many years.

A mother to two grown children, Ruth now makes her home in Texas with her husband, Peter, where she is still writing and still a beloved friend to Anita.