Several have asked about getting copies of the book, so I will explain. About a year before Grandma died (early in 1996) she found out she had lung cancer. She was always writing stories and poems. In facto, over the years several of her poems appeared in books put out with poetry contest winners (and those who could afford to pay the company to print their poem in their anthology). So, in two or three installments Grandma sent all the kids and grandkids bundles of approximately 200 pages each printed off of her computer. Lots of the stories were short snippets she remembered, some were fictional stories she had written over the years for classes, for clubs, etc. And of course, some of her poetry was thrown in, too. Some of the things were repeated between the installments. So, basically the "book" is in a 3-ring binder -- I think because Grandma knew she didn't have much time left and she wanted to get as many of her stories out as she could, and didn't want to worry about getting it printed and bound. I had thought of editing it (only for spelling/typing errors) and MAYBE rearrange (like put the snippits in one section, the fiction in a second and the poems in a third) but thought maybe that might take away from the spontinaety of the book. Besides the fact, I didn't know if any company would actually be interested in publishing the manuscript, and I don't have the money to send out 50+ copies to family members (besides, they might be insulted that I edited it LOL). We have a LARGE family. :o) Anyways, that's about the book. Grandma had written and self-published (with the help of Kankakee C. C.) other books since the 1960s, but I believe most of those books were collections of poems. I think this was the first time she'd put together stories from her life and the family that she remembered. Brenda Hébert