This collection begins with water and ends with winter. It is the first person account of the coming of age of a young woman, who sees water and the two equinox seasons, winter and summer, as threads that run through this life's story. As the young woman moves through both years and space, her home near Cleveland, OH, the Gulf of Mexico in Florida, the Low Country in South Carolina, San Diego, Gambier, (OH), Chicago, Washington DC, Paris, and Rome, she understands the passage of time through what she sees when traveling and also, through personal relationships. She pauses, to consider her childhood, again, particularly memories from the winter and summer, before she examines her early adult years, eighteen through twenty-five, through the lens of a rather disastrous relationship that endured throughout that time.