Do It Differently, Do It Differently! A Memoir

A poignant and inspiring memoir of a life well and deeply lived. Saundra Dubow Azmitia came of age in the forties and fifities under the influence of a "titan" of a mother, whose raging ambition for herself and her children put them all under great pressure to seek material success. Saundra's struggle to live up to her mother's expectations was frustrated by her own ambition to seek spiritual success as well as by the familial and social stereotypes about a "woman's place." While Saundra's mother pushed her daughter to seek riches via marriage, Saundra yearned for self-fulfillment through the arts and theater. Trying to combine her mother's idea of the successful with her own ideas about a meaningful life generated in Saundra a life-long struggle to be true to herself without losing her mother's love.