Katharine B. Soper has worked as a French professor, an attorney practicing divorce law and insurance defense law, a divorce mediator, a writer and editor at the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a University of Michigan administrator. Earlier in her life, she supervised line-walkers on the Alaska pipeline, guided student tours to France and Spain, and taught English to mid-level executives in Bogota, Colombia, and to air traffic controllers at the Bordeaux International Airport. But of all her adventures, the one that most profoundly changed her life came at age fifty-seven when she first walked the Camino Frances from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, to Santiago de Compostella, Spain. The journal she kept during this 800-kilometer trek is the basis for Steps Out of Time: One Woman’s Journey on the Camino. |
