[WVNan]

Strange you should say that. I've been thinking about writing that novel. Barefoot girl, share-cropper's cabin on grandfather's farm. Black Mammy Rose living with our family of six; living on what we could scrape out of the land and Dad teaching for pennies at a country school. No welfare in those days. Mammy Rose's "menfolk" had all gone to Detroit. She was left alone, so we all crunched together in that old house to sink or swim. It was not a bad deal for a kid. We had lots of outdoors in which to roam, we picked cotton and scratched out enough food from a garden, chickens, and pigs.

Stay tuned for "the rest of the story."

[patton]

Oooh, I would buy that book.

And, it would be apropos - given the current recession, people would eat it up.

Start writing, have fun. Remember to show it, not tell it.

;)