The Power to Become Something More

Book excerpt: Memories is an anthology, which includes biographical material about the author, her predecessors, her siblings and her children. Also included are many true stories collected over her lifetime, which have been told, retold and remembered. Some of these stories are rendered in the colloquial dialects of the times and locations. She describes moments of elation and triumph over difficulties and other times of overwhelming tragedy and sorrow. She includes a time line of all of the many places she has lived over her life of eighty-two years. You will marvel at her tremendous capacity to recall and narrate the details of events spanning so many years.