Fifty-seven years ago the author married his college sweetheart. Sky was at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri and Lloyd was in graduate school of Journalism at the University of Missouri. They met at a church "get acquainted" party for students in the First Baptist Church. Lloyd was a returning naval veteran, a Lt. JG in the amphibious forces in the Mediterranean.
The author's most recently published tome,
Papa Left Us But Mama Pulled Us Through, is a warm and wonderful book filled with nostalgia for days that seemed far more simple years ago. It will rivet readers to the page, evoking laughter, tears and cheers for the small triumphs of a woman whose handsome, womanizing husband left her and their seven children in a tenant farm shack with no resources to rely on except the mother's deeply religious faith and trust in God.
The squeezing octopus of the Great Depression clutched at their bodies and souls, trying it's best to diminish bright dreams of escape to a better life.
Readers write to say, "We´ve never known people who´ve faced such hunger, cold and insurmountable social odds as yours. How could you have escaped and risen to the positions you now and have occupied?"
