After a first lifetime of travel and books and wandering and culture and art and family and friends, and the growth of a voice, this author lost herself. Just South of the Solar Plexus, a memoir, is a story about finding voice and power, and then abandoning them in the red dust of the road when the world made it too hard to find her place. The place for her voice. So many of us—especially women—give up our voices, leaving who we are, and our power to change the world to die—unaware that we die with them. After a marriage, a baby, cancer, facing life and death, this writer reclaimed what she had abandoned: her voice and soul.