Book excerpt: This is truly fifteen years of my life. It was interesting. I lived during a time in our history when it was so cold President Reagan had to be sworn in on the inside of the White House. I detail such events as the Magnolia Homemakers, a little group of elderly ladies, which banned together fifteen years ago. Mrs. Helen Pickle is in a nursing home. She was our neighbor across the street. This book contains different events in my life. Someone told me why open your soul to the world? To quote J.F.K., I said, "Why not."