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Life takes our author down unexpected roads. Events, thoughts and remembrances are filed away waiting for Marguerite to pull them together in this three tiered narrative. Marguerite Morris Willis is a life long letter writer, amateur demographer and historian. Willis, the oldest of ten children, has candidly and humorously written about the process of the writing a family memoir. The story goes beyond the personal to a more general appeal as the author looks at the broader, historical perspective. The joint themes of resourcefulness and creativity weave a timely story in this recessionary...

Life takes our author down unexpected roads. Events, thoughts and remembrances are filed away waiting for Marguerite to pull them together in this three tiered narrative. Marguerite Morris Willis is a life long letter writer, amateur demographer and historian. Willis, the oldest of ten children, has candidly and humorously written about the process of the writing a family memoir. The story goes beyond the personal to a more general appeal as the author looks at the broader, historical perspective. The joint themes of resourcefulness and creativity weave a timely story in this recessionary...

This provocative book offers an important challenge to American education today as the author looks at contemporary education via three generational narratives. Information is presented in a casual yet compelling way that causes the reader to really think about education in the current age. Willis's stories are understandable. She uses everyday situations and references old and new TV shows, movies, videos and music in an entertaining style to break through education babble speak so the reader can understand what is happening today in the the world of learning - and how that affects...