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Written in a voice that is charming, witty, and honest, Uncharted Waters shares the stories of a Fortune 500 executive learning to sail, learning to love, learning to fight for the water and life she holds dear. Mary McKSchmidt is an adventurer--a woman who wanders across southern Africa, achieves success in positions typically held by men, hikes, bikes, and camps alone up the eastern coast of Lake Michigan, and joins her fun-loving, equally-adventuresome husband on voyages across the sometimes treacherous, always unpredictable, waters of Lake Michigan. In the presence of this lake, she gains clarity, finds inner strength, and hears the whispered musings of her heart. When she discovers Lake Michigan and all the Great Lakes are at risk, potentially damaged beyond repair, she replaces her briefcase, calculator, and business suit with a notepad, camera, and foul weather gear and embarks on a new adventure, this time to help create the political will necessary to clean up and protect the lakes. Captivating, heart-warming, and insightful, Uncharted Waters serves as a reminder that while we can live without a lot of things, clean, safe drinking water is not one of them.

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This beautiful memoir chronicles a lifelong affair - with water. It tells of a heart smitten by the embrace of a great lake, and the author's journey to love, enjoy and fight for, these freshwater jewels. --Todd L. Ambs, Campaign Director, Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition I am deeply touched by Mary McKSchmidt's movement through space and time. Movement on the sailboat, movement in tandem with her husband, graceful acceptance of the passage of time, and a sense of the eternal value and beauty of the lakes. --Dave Dempsey, author of On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century, Last Summer on Lake Huron, and Protector, Not Manager In this vital tribute to our water-love, Mary McKSchmidt mixes adventure, life learning, and solid information about our Great Lakes waters. You won't stop turning pages as she combines high-tension tales of riding our Great Lakes storms, sailing into our beauteous sunsets, and transforming the life you chose into the life you really want to live. Her deeply thoughtful meditations on healing our lakes are matched by her keen awareness of the brutal threats to our waters. Through the joys and losses of life on the lakes, she keeps our hearts focused on what it means to love our waters. --Anne-Marie Oomen, author of The Lake Michigan Mermaid (with Linda Nemec Foster), and Love, Sex and 4-H, Indie Next Generation Award for Memoir Mary McKSchmidt's writing is passionately lyrical, a quilt of experience chapter to chapter. Neither tedious in its information nor superficial in its appeal, the book chronicles McSchmidt's life-altering realization that My job was always finding water. --Jack Ridl, author of Losing Season, Practicing to Walk Like a Heron, and Saint Peter and the Goldfinch Riveting with an urgent message to all of us living alongside these lakes. --Lisa Ruoff, 2017 Commodore of the Macatawa Bay Yacht Club One can't help but be drawn into this woman's search for balance as she and her husband sail from one adventure to another on the Great Lakes, juggling careers, their relationship, and her passion for protecting the Great Lakes and the abundant and diverse plant and animal life along the shores. --David Ullrich, Great Lakes Advocate

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Mary McKSchmidt replaces a briefcase, calculator, and business suit with a notepad, camera, and foul weather gear and journeys into unchartered waters to help build the political will necessary to clean up and protect the Great Lakes. A published writer, photographer, and blogger, when not in West Michigan, she may be found wandering the planet, usually by boat, foot, or bicycle.

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