One of Everything, by Donna Carol Voss
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Is It Possible to OD on Life? The recipe for happily-ever-after? Start with one middle-class white girl in 1976. Add in her longing for love and acceptance, another middle-class white girl, a huge dollop of gossip, and excruciating peer and family pressure. Stir in youthful travel abroad, a Berkeley education, and a foray into paganism, drugs, marriage, and divorce. Whip until frothy with interracial and bisexual affairs, relationship violence, and exploration of multicultural mores. Season with salsa dancing. Temper with a segue into Mormonism. Decorate with a Temple wedding and garnish with motherhood to three adopted siblings. And what you have is a memoir capable of sating anyone's need for a great read. From shame to self-acceptance, from sexual ambiguity to definitive choice, from skepticism to belief, Donna Carol Voss's journey from childhood through marriage and motherhood is both unique and universal, a story that will resonate long after the last page is read.
One of Everything, by Donna Carol Voss - Amazon Sales Rank: #1899176 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .53" h x 6.15" w x 7.81" l, .65 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 262 pages
One of Everything, by Donna Carol Voss About the Author Donna Carol Voss's life experience has been eclectic; it includes just about everything but mainlining heroin and going to jail, and she missed jail by only a hair. She is a Berkeley grad, a stay-at-home mom, a former pagan, and a devout Mormon. A study in extremes, she is a fifty-something homemaker who loves rap music, outrageously expensive shoes, and people who own their flaws and call her on hers. She is uncomfortable negotiating the price of anything but relishes intense emotional interactions, especially if they are about politics and religion. Raised in the shadow of luxury, her favorite vacation is camping. She is an eternal optimist who is endlessly fascinated by the dark side of good people. Anxious to be liked by all, she has written a memoir that is sure to provoke everyone about something. Words are Donna's first love, whether used with laser-like precision or nuanced artistry. A highlight of her life, reflected on fondly and often, is the time she crafted the French equivalent of "get lost" phrased in the subjunctive with rich vulgarity when her first boyfriend dumped her. She is now married to a former Navy Commander for whom words are more of a guideline, and this a source of more humor and less frustration as the years go by. Since becoming Mormon at thirty-eight, Voss misses coffee desperately. She does not, however, miss alcohol or profanity, perhaps because she had "an elegant sufficiency," her mother would have said, of the latter. Voss and her husband adopted an eight-year-old boy, his five-year-old sister, and their one-year-old brother, an act which elicits nearly universal praise and which, it must be said in all honesty, she does not deserve since she really didn't know what she was getting herself into. She will accept some credit for still hanging in ten years later, and for making her best effort to like soccer, board games, and Disney movies. Her nineteen-year-old is now an Eagle Scout and a high school graduate; her sixteen-year-old is a lovely young woman, giving and kind; her eleven-year-old is a charismatic entrepreneur-in-the-making. They are all doomed to a life of correct grammar and old-fashioned etiquette. If she could do anything she wanted, it would be weeding while listening to an audiobook or public speaking. If she could eat only one food the rest of her life, it would be peanut butter fudge. If there are rays of sunshine anywhere near her, she has to be in them.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A Prodigal Daughter By Bani Sodermark Whew! What a Memoir!That’s exactly the kind of feeling that I got after reading this book. Donna Voss bares her soul in this extensive account of her life with brutal honesty. Without ego or self glorification she tells her story as an observer of her life, putting emphasis, not so much on the events that take place, as on the reasons and circumstances that led to her making the choices that she did, for those experiences to manifest. “Early experiences etch themselves into our soul throughout our life, they call to other people and conditions.”The story starts with Donna mentioning her background as the daughter in a white, middle class family, living in a suburb in San Diego. The lack of intimacy and discourse within the family and an alcoholic mother grated on Donna as she looked for acceptance and emotional support within the precincts of her immediate circle, which was her school and her parents. She found it at the age of thirteen in a girl called Libby who was attending a typing class with her during the summer holidays. They both enter into a lesbian relationship.Somehow the vibes between the teenaged schoolgirls are discovered and they are both exposed to a lot of derision and contempt from their schoolmates. The upshot is a decade long separation between them, which put its imprint on Donna, as she clammed up, refusing to disclose her own feelings, becoming, as she calls it, a “crocodile” with only her snout above the water.A year in France, as an exchange student does little to change her “crocodile stance”, after which she begins her university education at the University of Berkeley. Here, the prevailing mood is liberty and free love and Donna goes into its throes head-on. The intellectualized values of liberty and sex attracted her and she indulged her sexual appetite freely, with both men and women. However, even here, she doesn’t find the uncompromising acceptance that she craves on a permanent basis in relationships that can only be described as tumultuous, though some women “three human angels” do come close for shorter intervals.“In that moment, heaven touches earth”.In this phase of her life, she explores drugs, gets married and divorced, while also getting a degree in psychology and developing an interest in tarot reading.Thereafter, Donna gets a job as a health-care administrator. Continuing on the same lines as she did in Berkeley, Donna, ever eager-to-please, does far more than she needs to, while also entering into relationships with some of the patients. This leads her into dangerous territory with an ex-convict, from whom she is saved by another relationship with another lesbian called Coral. This relation is to continue until she has a dream which she takes seriously because it was so vivid. At this point, she is also out of a job, so she decides to break up her relationship and return to her parents in San Diego.In this phase of her life, she heals her relation with her parents somewhat. She makes more acquaintances and these lead to a job where she meets a man called Gregg who is a Mormon. The firmness of Gregg’s belief in an unconditionally loving God in Heaven influence Donna very deeply and she begins a study of the Mormon cult. She meets another man within the Mormon community called Cary Voss, who is as different from her as is possible, but the attraction between them is too strong to deny. They decide to get married and adopt three attachment disordered siblings as foster children. Later on they move to Utah where Donna discovers a love for writing.Bringing up the children is a difficult story in itself and the telling of that story is the last phase of this content filled memoir, before Donna moves on to the next.If there is one thread which runs through the book, it is a healing by Cosmic Grace. It is in attempting to manifest “as above, so below” that Donna went full force into her life.“I am a sucker for uncharted territory…”.Her protection was her own truthfulness and integrity and Cosmic Grace manifested in its own sweet way behind the scenes, culminating in the advent of Gregg at an opportune time. This is a book that could make a diehard sceptic reexamine his/her beliefs in the existence of cosmic forces working for our benefit in the unseen.This is not a religious book, nor does it exalt the Mormon church which suffers from its own contradictions. However, the basic sexual discipline that they impose, appears to have benefited Donna, as it got her into contact with Cary and later, bring up three foster children, in another very difficult phase of her life.The sheer intensity of Donna’s story makes me give full marks for readability, as it chronicles the acceptance of the experience of “one of everything” that Life has to offer, the good, the bad and also what there is to come. Personally, I have read this book several times, each time I find something new.This is a difficult book to recommend to all because many people would be shocked and appalled at the kind of licentiousness that Donna allowed into her life. However, those that do read this book would be touched by a blessing as they imbibe the import of the sequence of events. As Donna quotes from the story of Job in the Bible, “The end is greater than the beginning”.Warmly recommended , with some caution.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Riveting memoir with twists and turns By J Mallory Books rarely hold my attention, mainly because I have young children pawing at me all day long and I get easily distracted. It takes me ages to finish a book, but I read this book in one evening. It held my attention, which says a lot. Donna Voss is very real and honest in her memoir. The twists and turns along her spiritual journey to find herself and her purpose are riveting. I could not put this book down until I read the final page. I highly recommend it.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Very honest By Ionia Froment This is a very courageous memoir that does not hold back from telling the truth about the author's life. She writes with a strong voice and gives her audience the kind of audience that one hopes for when they pick up a memoir.We all have struggles in our lives at some point, some more so than others, and I applaud Donna Carol Voss for using her own experiences to help others that may be experiencing some of the same things.She writes about a lot of different topics, some very personal, some not as much, but each one of them is interesting in a different way. The author had a lot of unique experiences when she was younger and travelled a long road to come to the realisation of her true faith and what she was meant to do with her life.From her early life and questions of her sexual orientation to her feelings about motherhood and the relationship with her own mum, she covers a lot of ground in this book.If you enjoy memoirs and are looking for something good to read, this is a book that I think you will enjoy. Open, honest and helpful.This review is based on a complimentary copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All opinions are my own.
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