From Their Past to My Present is Ursula Hickox's deeply personal memoir tracing a life shaped by movement, identity, and the search for belonging. Growing up between two worlds, her early childhood in Palau was marked by the tension between tradition and change before a journey to Guam set her on a new path. She found her footing through life with the Moores, an American high school experience, and the early steps of independence through college and work. Marriage and motherhood brought new chapters — military life overseas, the growth found in Hawaii, and the painful but necessary passage of divorce and healing — before a final return to the United States where she could claim her story as her own. Part family portrait, part self-discovery, this is a memoir about finding yourself across the distances between cultures and generations.