It isn’t that I will ever actually accomplish this or if I get it written it will ever be published but at least I’m taking the first step. I wrote the outline for the first chapter years ago and then burned it. My plan was to write a novel or novelette based on my mother’s life as a girl born and growing up in the great depresion. At one point it sounded like a child’s book much like the little house books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I was disappointed with myself at the time and decided to burn it. Now I realise this is probably exactly the kind of book or story I want to tell. I want to tell it from my mom’s point of view as she told her stories of living on a farm growing up in Missouri during the great depression to me. Sure, much of what she told me were bits and pieces. It will be up to me to piece them together and form a quilt of her life as a young farm girl. 9 months ago