In this biographical fiction, the first supervisor of nurses for the Indian Service shares her vivid memories of 80 years of living an independent life of adventure, frustration, triumph, and personal commitment to caring.

Farm and ranch women are the heart of an important American institution--agriculture--and their strength is a critical resource for their families and communities. This book offers those women their own special prescription for health and well-being in one hundred small doses.

Jones conveys an unconventional biography of an unconventional woman, Marcia Muth, memory painter, who was born in 1919.

Maybe it's not fraud; it's probably not a felony, either. But, going along with her husband's latest adventure, a road trip on which she is to impersonate a visitor in several West Texas hospitals, makes Dorothy Faye Bell feel like a criminal. The trip's events cause a storm of emotion which clears only after she finds a person she had forgotten, or never really knew, herself. Hers is a story of the search for purpose in midlife, spiced with West Texas characters and her own brand of humor. Her part in Harold's scheme is to justify parking their only dwelling, a twenty-eight foot travel...

As a winter storm bears down on the Texas Panhandle, seventy-four-year-old Willa Jackson embarks on a plan to maintain her independence and fully realize her artistic talent. Her daughter, Melanie, is determined to take charge of her mother, although her hands are full of her own problems. Willa's past, and that of Jackson's Pond, Texas, the dying town named for the pond on their ranch, provides a backdrop for Willa's determination to secure her own future and the future of her grandchildren. Willa challenges resistance from several directions, including from her own doubts, as she follows...