Each day catalysts in our lives affect us.  Sometimes they are so small we hardly notice them.  A smile from someone passing us on the street may elevate our mood; hearing a song on the radio may trigger a memory that brings clarity to why we behave in a certain way. Sometimes these events are more immediately significant, like the loss of a job.

And, every once in a while, we are hit by a catalyst with the magnitude of an avalanche, an event so significant that our very survival is at stake. This is what happened to Donna Mebane. The catalyst to her journey was the unexpected and yet unexplained loss of her nineteen year old daughter, Emma.  What she learned and how she has manifested it is a fascinating look at how we choose to move forward in life – and what just might happen when we do.

Donna Mebane grew up wanting to be two things: a mother and a writer. She became a mom after the birth of her first child, Jason. She became a writer after the death of her youngest child, Emma.

 

While Donna has had numerous writing experiences over the years, she became a published author after she wrote Tomorrow Comes as a way of envisioning a future for her 19-year-old daughter who went to sleep one night and never woke up. She calls Tomorrow Comes a work of “reality fiction” because it captures the reality of grief that family and friends endured after Emma died at the same time that it creates an enchanting fictional world of AFTER where Emma can continue to be herself