![]() ![]() (A helpful and colorful tip from Gran: When collecting eggs, never reach into a chicken’s nest without looking first or you might pull out a big snake.) Gran left the farm to visit Cincinnati around 1940. ![]() Hard work was a way of life for her from her early childhood, whether it was taking care of her younger siblings or doing farmwork. ![]() My grandma was the ninth of fourteen children raised on a farm in the Kentucky Appalachian region. So Rachel and Mike, along with their conflicts, developed in large part just from the ideas I had in my head about them when they were mentioned in One Reckless Summer.īut one character in this book – Rachel’s grandma, Edna – was very much inspired by my late grandmother, Mary Irene Hargis Blevins (shown here at age 14). No one particular factor inspired this book, and now that I’m writing a series of linked stories, much of the inspiration is growing from the secondary characters who show up in Destiny. ![]()
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