Courageous Memoir of a Restless Life

Self examination isn’t easy.

Writing about it is even harder.

Nancy Owen Nelson was an army brat whose military father struggled with depression and alcoholism. She says about her family constantly moving from army base to army base, including Alaska, Indiana, Texas and Oklahoma: “I was angry and sad. I don’t think I really blamed anybody. Why should I? It was always like this. I had to go wherever I was told to go, whenever the orders came.”

No wonder she felt a need to exert con...