Doreen's Mountain Home is a true story about an Appalachian Mountain way of life covering the time before and during the Great Depression, during World War II and up to the year 2004. It tells of the hardships, trials and tribulations of raising a family of fifteen children on a mountain farm and the small income from a sawmill. It tells of the twenty eight year illness of her husband, how she fed him every meal and took care of his daily needs. It tells of the death of four of their children and the attachment Doreen had to her mountain home in spite of the hardships. Four generations of...

Making Choices is a story about a young woman who tried to find strength through her husband and her best friend Mary. She felt insecure and incapable of dealing with life on her own. It shows the pitfalls that she dealt with when she sought employment to help earn a living by putting their children in a day care center and taking on a heavy load as she tries to juggle everyday life and a full time job, when she felt cooped behind four walls with two small children was more than she could handle, while her husband struggled to work during the day and go to school at night to make life better...

Making Choices is a story about a young woman who tried to find strength through her husband and her best friend Mary. She felt insecure and incapable of dealing with life on her own. It shows the pitfalls that she dealt with when she sought employment to help earn a living by putting their children in a day care center and taking on a heavy load as she tries to juggle everyday life and a full time job, when she felt cooped behind four walls with two small children was more than she could handle, while her husband struggled to work during the day and go to school at night to make life better...

Transplanted by Necessity is a story of my life. I wanted to leave something for my children that no one else could give them. I felt that a small piece of history of my life may be helpful at some point in their own life, if nothing else they could look back and see what life was like for me as a young girl growing up in the mountains of West Virginia during the late 1930's and 40's. When life gets tough they would know that the generation before them was tough also and the generations before my generation were more difficult. Life is as difficult as you allow it to be, each generation found...