Shards of Ice

Shards of Ice is about Antarctica, the death of a beloved husband and grief. Written in fragments, Shards of Ice interweaves experiences of the author’s trips to Antarctica – the first was soon after her husband died – and stories of the early explorers, in the form of snapshots rather than linear history. There is a section on the Red Desert, central Australia, another spiritual home of the author’s, contrasting with the southern white desert. And significant reflection about the four years of her husband’s decline, his death and her grief. The growing demographic of Baby Boomers will be facing dying and grief sooner than they expect. Shards of Ice provides pathways and experience, and asks questions.

Author Biography

Minnie Biggs wrote her first book when she was thirteen and has been writing ever since. Her marriage of forty-six years ended with the death of her husband, and her widowhood began with her first trip to Antarctica. Minnie’s third trip to Antarctica was on the square-rigged bark Europa. Minnie has written about food for the prize-winning Simple Cooking, essays on spirituality for yoga and monastic journals, music reviews for newspapers, and poems in haiku books. Shards of Ice is her first memoir. Minnie studied at Sarah Lawrence College, the New School for Social Research, the Episcopal Divinity School, the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia and was a founding participant and teacher at the International School of Spiritual Reading and Healing in Portugal. Minnie was born in New York and lives in Kurrajong NSW.