The Summertime of Our Lives: Stories from a Marriage

Darlene Sayers Kardatzke, M.D., discovered her life’s calling as a pediatrician while a college student in the city of Anderson, Indiana. This book recounts her journey as a doctor, wife, and mother through years she called the “summertime” of life. Her example of living life to the fullest in the face of her struggle with cancer later in life is an inspiring tale of love and commitment.

Darlene herself coined the term, “the summertime of our lives” less than a year before she died of metast...