Ever wonder what life is like on a touring ice-skating show? How many people travel with the show, how do you pack two fifty-pound suitcases with a year’s worth of clothes, shoes, and supplies? Do you pay your own hotel and transportation? Speaking of pay, what do they pay? How do you cook in a hotel room? And who is hooking up with whom? This semi autobiography is a humorous look into the world of a traveling show about how to live this type of life on the road. It is a coming-of-age story where quirky characters become family, fall into and out of bed—I mean love—go on adventures, and grow up.
Madeleine Deese grew up figure skating and the culmination of her career was traveling and touring with a well-known skating organization on five continents for a decade. She then went on to become a nurse and eventually a nurse anesthetist. She has been published in poetry and is currently living in NC.