How do you rebuild a shattered life after enduring personal tragedy followed by the onset of terminal cancer? What is it like to cruise the entire Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from Chesapeake Bay to the Florida Keys and the Bahama Islands? How does it feel to embark on a new adventure with a loving partner who shares your every enthusiasm and experience? These totally different questions are all addressed in "Lessons from Summer School" as Dave Perkins tells how learning to live and cruise on a small boat helped him recover from the cumulative disasters of a brain injury to his wife, the divorce that followed, the inexplicable death of his oldest son, and a diagnosis of leukemia. It is a superb story, an upbeat and positive tale of two people, partners in a quest, overcoming sickness and the wounds of the past, learning about themselves and life as they travel aboard a boat affectionately named "Summer School."