Here and Hereafter is about what happens when mortality and eternity come together, often at times of life-endings, expanding human consciousness, connecting earthly life with afterlife. Joy Ibsen is a dynamic writer and musician who grew up in Midwestern Danish American small towns, spent her early adult years in Chicago, escaped to the far north woods and Lake Superior in Michigan's UP, and now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Throughout her life she been fascinated by seeking answers to two questions: What are our lives about? What happens after life?