Asbury Park, NJ // May 22, 2021

Local author and motivational speaker Sally Kalksma signs copies of her memoir “Life Gets in the Way: Powering Through Adversity with Grit and Grace” at the Asbury Book Cooperative, a community-run bookstore, where she also read excerpts and took questions from guests. The Amazon best-seller “Life Gets in the Way” chronicles Kalksma’s journey as a young widow, her diagnosis of multiple myeloma, and foray into competitive stair climbing, which she uses to raise money for charities researching her form of blood cancer. An audiobook version is set for release this summer.