Woven on the wind : women write about friendship in the sagebrush West / edited by Linda Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hasselstrom, Linda M.

Collier, Gaydell M.

Curtis, Nancy, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--West (U.S.)--Literary collections.

Women.

Female friendship--Literary collections.

Female friendship.

American literature--Women authors.

American literature.

West (U.S.)--Literary collections.

West (U.S.).

Friendship--Literary collections.

Friendship.

American literature--West (U.S.).

Female friendship--West (U.S.).

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xix, 310 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Summary:

"Woven on the Wind" collects contemporary stories told in essay and poetry form by women of the interior West, also known as sagebrush country. This book tells of their relationships with each other--how they develop, how they may fade, but mostly how they sustain women in a place where companionship is not always easily found.

Contents:

Introduction: Voices Woven of Wind and Sage xv

I My Feet Set Down Roots: The Grounding 1

My Heart Still Grins / Jane Wells 5

June and I, Singing / June Frankland Baker 6

Thinking of Rain in the Dry Season / Kathleene West 6

No Room for Strangers / Mary Hadley 7

Dear Judy / Sherry Schultz 10

Letter to a "Friend" / Agnes L. Wich 11

Goldie / Helen Applegarth McConnell 13

The Rapture / Diane J. Raptosh 14

Girls' Night Out / Shannon Dyer 14

Something of the Earth / Joyce Badgley Hunsaker 17

Sisters / Stephanie Pershing Buehler 19

Love and Light / Deb Carpenter 20

Without a Doubt / Eva Potts Wells Burton 20

If... / Peggy Sanders 20

Pearls from the Milk / Sheila Vosen-Shorten 21

Tea with Daphne / Anne Slade 23

Preserving / Caroline Patterson 24

Trinity / Stephanie Painter 26

Stella He / May H. Baughman 28

Aunt Noi / C. L. Prater 29

The Oddest Daughter / Jo-Ann Swanson 30

Homemade Noodles / Cheryl Anderson Wright 33

The Path / Charlotte M. Babcock 34

Secret Sin / Norma Nelson Duppler 35

Ladies Aid / Barbara M. Smith 37

Light / Sandra Gail Teichmann 38

Prairie Ocean / Echo Roy 41

That's What Neighbors Do / Kathryn E. Kelley 42

Rosario / Mary Peace Finley 43

Elvira / Ginny Jack Palumbo 44

Six Artists at a Country Retreat / Linda M. Hasselstrom 45

Beverly / Lorrie Mydland 48

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star / Jeannie Fox 50

Summer Friends / Saundra DeRemer 52

Learning How to Be Lonely / Betty Downs 53

Dormant Seeds Sprouting / Faye Schrater 55

Of Potatoes and the Wind / Janelle Masters 57

Pearls / Lee Ann Roripaugh 59

The Art of Living the Moment / Robin Littlefield 61

The Women / Judith McConnell Steele 63

Sigga / Lillian Vilborg 64

Lupe's Song / Ellen Vayo 66

The Lady Who Knew How to Live / Lucy L. Woodward 67

Resolving Mrs. Wackerly / Eileen Thiel 70

Spun Sugar / Ellen Waterston 72

Capes / Karen N. Miller 73

Wyoming Mother / Dawn Senior 75

Women in the Rain / Candy Hamilton 77

Belonging to the Black Crows / Dorothy Blackcrow Mack 79

Pink Iron Nails / Sue Leever 84

Ghost of April, 1978 / Carolyn Dufurrena 86

Joan / Dianna Torson 88

Some Things Never Change / Mary Harman 88

Marriage / Mary Lou Sanelli 92

Up Fortification Creek / Sureva Towler 93

Divas for a Day / Barbara Rinehardt 95

Dear Berry / Sharon R. Bryant 96

Friends for Life / Wanda Morgan 98

A Man's Work / B. J. Buckley 100

II Leaves Speak for You: The Nourishing 103

Chokecherries / Thelma Poirier 107

Coming Home / Diane Josephy Peavey 107

Friends Because / Colette "Koko" Knutson Gjermundson 110

Letters to Lil / Charlotte M. Babcock 111

Time for Friendship / Dianne P. Rood Kiesz 115

La-vin-i-a / Nancy Curtis 115

There Were No Women / Laurie Wagner Buyer 119

Because Men Rule / Wanda Rosseland 122

The Reclamation / Anne Fantaci Clement 123

Who Else? / Karen Obrigewitch 127

Gram's Vegetables / Karen M. Berry 127

At the Prairie, the Day Before / Twyla Hansen 129

Saying Good-bye to 'Nali / Jennifer Green 131

Backbeat / Page Lambert 134

Strung on Sinew / Ara Anderson 136

Handwork / Jennifer Graf Groneberg 136

Whatever Works / Linda Boyden 137

Lessons Learned by Hand / Bernie Koller 140

Granma's Gloves / Ellen Vayo 143

Old Ladies Go Hunting / Heidi R. Cousins 143

Muskrat Ramble / Lois Hart 146

Spider Beside Her / Donna Parks 147

The Storm / Lee Ann Siebken 147

Passage / Tina Welling 152

End of the World / Sandie Nicolai, Norma J. Kulas 153

Huddled for Warmth / Donna Gray 156

Mother Love / Ruby R. Wilson 156

The Woman, Listening on the Party Line / B. J. Buckley 158

Shifting Gears / Gin Scott 159

Co-Madres / Claudette Ortiz 162

Barriers of Silence / Gael Seed 163

Majesty / Vee Hageman 166

Hog Wars / Kathy Hanks 167

Don't Step in the Cactus / Donna Britton Harvey 169

The Night / Tena Cook Gould 170

Trying to Remember She Is Now a Man / Mary Lou Sanelli 170

Vi and Me / Pamela J. Ochsner 171

Whistling Girls and Knitting / Phyllis M. Letellier 173

Sybil Harris / Lois Jean Moore 174

Barbed Wire and Robert Frost / Pearle Henriksen Schultz 176

Knowing with the Heart / Gaydell Collier 177

Maybe Slower Is Better / Jody Strand 180

Leah, Bright and Dark / Mary Alice Gunderson 181

The Heart Knows / Cleo Cantlon 183

The Sunset Cafe / Patricia Archie 184

At Forty-five / Julene Bair 186

Full Monty / Rian Connors 190

Living Without Loneliness / Elizabeth Canfield 191

A Woman's Place / Lyn DeNaeyer 192

Sky, Grass, Rain, and Sage / Nedalyn D. Testolin 193

Daily Acts of Courage / Jane Elkington Wohl 195

III New Flowers Unfolding: The Promise 197

Oyurushi: Forgiveness / Lee Ann Roripaugh 201

The Company of Women / Susann McCarthy 201

She Was Writing / Lora K. Reiter 203

The Wedding Shower / Carol Boies 204

Linda / Lucy Adkins 206

The Legacy / Kay Marie Porterfield 207

Resurrections / Lyn DeNaeyer 209

The Gift / A. Rose Hill 210

Word / Susan Minyard 211

Tapestry of Knots / Virginia Bennett 216

Pilgrimage / Maura T. Callahan 217

What Makes Our Lives / Emily Boies 219

Tea for Two / Georgia Rice 220

Sisterhood / Patricia Frolander 222

Dear Ann / Darcy Acord 223

Common Ground / Shelly Whitman Colony 226

Holy Ground / Sister Hildegard Dubnick, OSB 228

The Concubine / Mary Garrigan 231

Anneen / Sue Hartman 234

Wild roses / Thelma Poirier 239

My Mother's Moccasins / Sophie Dominik Echeverria 239

Her Soul Lives Here / Melinda Stiles 243

Let the Circle Be Unbroken / Mary E. Schnell 245

Melissa / Janet E. Graebner 246

Reclaiming Mother's World / Louise Engelstad 248

Matrimony / Diane J. Raptosh 249

The Shell Game / Gwen Petersen 250

Cycles / Bonnie Larson Staiger 252

Alva in the Fields / Jo-Ann Swanson 253

How I Became My Own Woman / Candi Red Cloud 254

Defying Bare Branches / Katy Paynich 256

Dear Quilting Sisters / Laura Hawkins Grevel 258

Jean / Susan Vittitow 259

Come Home / Donna Applegarth Mentink 263

Before She Left / Maureen Tolman Flannery 263

How the West Was Won / Hilary Barton Billman 265

Car Pool Friendship / Maureen Cain 267

Circled in Shadows / Louise Steneck 269

To Breathe on My Own / Maureen Helms Blake 270

Below Zero

December / Jane Elkington Wohl 272

Cultivating the Iris, Dawn of Change / Vanessa Hastings 273

The Waiting / Doris Bircham 278

To Smooth a Mountain / Cindy Bellinger 279

Barefooting Summer / A. Rose Hill 280

The Field Road / Susan Austin, Laurie Kutchins 281

Community of Stones / Jeanne Rogers 289

My Old Aunts Play Canasta in a Snowstorm / Marjorie Saiser 290.

ISBN:

0395977088

OCLC:

45248355