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It cannot be said that moss grows under author Valerie Perez’s feet. Last year she sailed across the Pacific Ocean in a forty foot sailboat. This year, she traded the Pacific blue waters for Eastern Shores of US as she markets the charming and wickedly funny "The Last Voyage of the Cosmic Muffin," a book she wrote about her sailing experience. Perez, 52, joined the Peace Corps when she was 49 and spent 16 months in Micronesia -- not the Sudan, or Colombia or Bangladesh, although she would have gamely gone to any one of those places, too. Instead, she was assigned to a South Pacific paradise. Her MBA helped get her in the Peace Corps, but she spent most of her time working with disabled and special needs kids. It was hardly a specialty -- she had only worked with children briefly once before in her entire life. But it was part of an adventure that fulfilled a lifelong dream to join the Peace Corps. That was only the start of her amazing and unexpected journey. A feisty woman, Perez had planned to take time off from her life and write about her years in the Peace Corps, envisioning a hiatus of calm solitude while she penned her memoirs. But instead she set sail with Captain Shep Harris, an old boyfriend, and suddenly her calm waters became more than a little turbulent. In pitch-perfect prose, Perez details the trials and tribulations of life -- and sometimes romance -- at sea, as she and Shep set sail on the Cosmic Muffin to California from the Federated States of Micronesia. Armchair travelers, we are drawn into this seaboard existence, seeing the stars pronging the sails at night, the flying fish that land on deck, and even the birds that fly, unaware, into the mast. Time itself seems to stop as we learn about Perez’s past and try to figure out her future right along with her. Now she has launched a three month road trip with her two cats, Phoenix and Diablo, traveling solo down the east coast in a motor home, a twenty-year old cruiser borrowed from her parents. She is blogging her adventures and plans to write a book about her RV experience while charting the unknown waters of book promotion. Valerie Perez will be at Bookends in Gloucester during the Sidewalk Bizarre August 3 from noon until 2 p.m. to meet customers and sign her book. For more information please call Bookends at 978-281-2053.
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