"Apprehension and Transcendence" by Valerie Paterson (reprise from October 2019)

a mother's angst abroad
As her teen son leaves on his gap year experience before college ("A Walk in the Park" by Kyle Paterson, June 26, 2019 podcast), writer Valerie Paterson shares her view of leaving her son abroad at the edge of the world for an outdoor encounter and reveals her own transformative experience of visiting Patagonia, Chile. 

Valerie Paterson lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, and is a member of NC Writers’ Network. She is writing a memoir of her experiences as shared in “Me Alone,” published in Bearing Up. She is an award-winning quilt maker. Her work has appeared in Free-Motion Mastery in a Month: A Block a Day to Machine Quilting Success by RaNae Merrill. She and her husband love to dance the Argentine Tango.