Mom's Lovely Garden of Weeds and Roses

Book excerpt: Mom’s Lovely Garden of Weeds and Roses is a work of love by her daughter, Sasha (aka Valerie Murphy). Mom’s Lovely Garden was written from hundreds of conversations between Sasha and her mother over morning coffee, information gleaned from her mother's journals and diaries and numerous conversations with family and friends. It covers the time from her mothers birth in 1922 until the death of her daughter, Diane, in 1947. This was a project they worked on together until her mother’s death in 2006. This book is a gift to Sasha’s daughters who knew very little about their grandmother and for her four sisters who live in the Pacific Northwest.