title: Getting Unstuck
author:  Karen Casey 
description: Karen Casey is a popular speaker at recovery and spirituality conferences. She is the author of 19 books, including <i>Each Day a New Beginning</i> which has sold more than 2 million copies. She and her husband spend their time between Florida, Indiana, and Minnesota. Visit her at www.karencasey.com or http://karencasey.wordpress.com
zlib_text: **Weekend**
  
   **by Christopher Pike**
  
   **ONE**
  
  The road was painful. Last summer's hurricanes had dug strategically placed
  potholes across the narrow asphalt highway. Every time their dusty Datsun
  hatchback hit one — every sixty seconds — Shani Tucker's head kissed the car's
  ceiling. She wanted an aspirin, but they upset her stomach, and it was already
  worse off than her head. Long drives were not her forte. She wished that there
  was room in the front seat with Kerry and Angie, where at least she could have
  tied herself down with a seat belt. But Angie was driving, and Kerry's hand
  was glued to the radio, searching vainly through static bands.
  
  Though the road was doing its best to slow them down, they were, nevertheless,
  too far south into Mexico to catch San Diego's stations. Glancing out of the
  window at the brittle tumbleweed, the baked orange hills, and dry, cracked
  ravines, Shani felt as if she had crossed into another world, rather than
  merely into another country.
  
  "Can't get