Woody and I almost made our fiftieth wedding anniversary-a marriage filled with adventure: fly fishing, backpacking in mountains, living in exotic locations like New Zealand and Alaska, and retiring to a beautiful cabin high in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana. But the last two years proved traumatic when the monster Glioblastoma tore apart our dreams for retirement by stealing Woody's memory and sense of time and place, zapping his energy, ...
Young Tula Tarantula sits sobbing on the Bald Knob. Ever since her little brother Bubba Boo got spider-napped, she has remained alone. Tula likes her neighbor Ruby singing and playing jig music, but Ruby has been quiet lately.Old Ruby lives by herself in the same holler with no friends or family. She's sad because no one is around to hear her play or sing or to dance to her music. One day Tula hides in Ruby's pappy's old mandolin, hangs by her...
Young Tula Tarantula sits sobbing on the Bald Knob. Ever since her little brother Bubba Boo got spider-napped, she has remained alone. Tula likes her neighbor Ruby singing and playing jig music, but Ruby has been quiet lately.Old Ruby lives by herself in the same holler with no friends or family. She's sad because no one is around to hear her play or sing or to dance to her music. One day Tula hides in Ruby's pappy's old mandolin, hangs by her...
Dr. Sue Ann Parish is hired as principal of the one-room school in Moose Springs, Alaska. With her teenage daughter she moves to a community of dog mushers, trappers, gold miners, writers, artists, shady characters running from the law, and rugged individualists in general, each one with a story, whether told or hidden.
Dr. Sue Ann Parrish, who has battled and won against cancer, has loved and lost enough. She will have her children and grandchildren, but her world is empty without Custer's Native American wisdom and vitality. The white eagle feather that symbolizes him reminds her of his promise: "When the red sunset comes, happiness will follow.
Dr. Sue Ann Parrish, cherished by two men in her life only to lose both, has remained alone until she admits to loving Custer, the mountain dweller who befriended her in her sorrow and sees her through her greatest challenge, breast cancer. As she fights for her life, her daughter Betsy learns the truth about her father.
Betsy Wingate travels to Red Lodge, Montana, seeking refuge in her mother's log cabin high in the Beartooth Mountains while awaiting the finalization of her divorce. In overwhelming pain and bitterness, Betsy swears off men forever.
Mississippi. The 1950s and '60s. Two friends, one white and the other black. Sue Ann spends her pre-adolescent years protecting her best friend, Liz Bess, from prejudice and mistreatment, but she can't protect her from the untimely death of her mother and their resulting separation as Liz Bess is sent north to school.
Cayce McCallister and sister Harri Wellington, fifty-year-old "magnets for trouble, " live by the philosophy of their father, giver of their gift of seeing into the past. Through a bloodstained cookbook in Natchez, Mississippi, restless spirits channel Cayce and Harri, beckoning them to follow the path leading to Spanish Oaks Inn in south Mississippi. Here the sisters come face to face with spirits of slaves related to the current owner and hi...
Keep an open mind and an open path, and the Way will find you." This philosophy of Cayce McCallister and Harri Wellington leads the sisters to Bar None, a ghost town high in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. The locale is home to many spirits from the gold rush era and to lingering human relics from the town's early days-all playing havoc on town renovation efforts. The sisters, along with friends both living and dead, hope to uncover the secre...
