Böcker av Shari Edwards

"It was twenty-six years ago, February 7th, that I saw him. He sat alone, at the end of the bar, his long fingers wrapped loosely around his sweating glass. He seemed to be interested in nothing more than its contents...His dark Native American features sparked a curiosity. I noticed him steal a glance as I nervously, crossed and uncrossed my legs..."In Still Remembering..., Shari continues her search for memories lost in the shadows of her small hometown.Eavesdrop with her as she listens to her parents "bedside chats." Follow her to a small river town, in 1922, to find a real life Harold Hill.Come with her as she searches for the identity of the Unknown Soldier and share her sorrow as she says good-bye to Hattie, the blind schoolteacher she read to every Wednesday.You will find more stories of the old-one-room school houses and unforgettable people.Losing her husband and father colored her stories--changed her life. She shares her pain and the miracles in those difficult days. During her husband's cancer treatments, she escaped to the memories of a much-loved trip to Europe. She takes you with her as she dismantles her father's house, dispelling its ghosts. But, with those losses she finds the hometown she once knew.

"I left a town full of friends. A town of innocence, a town of easy living and lively shops. A town free of pollution and drugs, where you drank lemonade every summer afternoon. Doors were left unlocked and neighbors helped neighbors. That was my hometown, Willows, California 1956."Shari returns to her hometown to find herself a stranger, an outcast. Walk with her as her moccasins lead her down the back streets of her childhood.Shari found her Native American Heritage through a grandmother she never knew. She searched for a reason why her grandfather had left his two small sons in an orphanage in Sacramento, California, and never returned. She shares her father's stories and her pain as she watched him struggle against his enemy, Alzheimer's. Follow her into the school cafeteria as she faces the wrath of Mrs. Reidy in Terror in the Lunchroom.Within the covers of As I Remember you will find "one-room schools," old "general stores," and a memorable old school teacher named Hattie. Shari opens the lid on her Prayer Jar so that we may take a peek inside. Memories like these will keep you from unraveling. It proves we are connected.