Life takes our author down unexpected roads. Events, thoughts and remembrances are filed away waiting for Marguerite to pull them together in this three tiered narrative. Marguerite Morris Willis is a life long letter writer, amateur demographer and historian. Willis, the oldest of ten children, has candidly and humorously written about the process of the writing a family memoir. The story goes beyond the personal to a more general appeal as the author looks at the broader, historical perspective. The joint themes of resourcefulness and creativity weave a timely story in this recessionary period of American history.