• Born with the atom bomb 
• Struggling, loving parents
• Polio scare
• “Doodlebug, Doodlebug, come out of your hole; your house is on fire and your children will burn”
• Mustard plasters
• Daddy telling “The Crooked Mouth Family” story (over and over to much delight)
• Separated from my best friend
• Found him again two years later and showered him with 100 unwanted kisses on the school playground
• Hopscotch; Jacks; Lavender Blue, Billy Billy, Lavender Green
• Field trips—Merita Bakery, Coble Dairy, Timrod Park
• Spelling bees, Old Maid, racist school plays (Epaminondas; Little Black Sambo)
• Recess trips to the bathroom with friends to see who’d be the first to get her period
• First bra; first kiss
• Les Miserables; First “C” (Damned math!)
• School chorus, church choir, handbell choir
• 4-H—projects, camps, awards
• Student Senate, May Court, Social Board, Japanese tea garden
• First love, lost love, real love
• All grown up, all alone together
• Poor and in love, our first home of our own
• Babies, diapers, formula, laughing, crying, exhaustion, love
• Politics, women’s movement, civil rights, peace movement
• Speaking my mind, shaking in my boots
• Life in a tent; baths in a mountain creek, building our home with our own four hands: dreams of self-sufficiency
• Gymnastics, cross country, careers
• Camping, canoeing, photography, basketry, writing, publishing
• Grandchildren, retirement, returning to the dream
• Building—again; growing our own food; growing ourselves

What’s next?