Companion Stories

This collection of family stories tells of many repeat performances--over more than one hundred years and in places all over the United States. We call these repeat performances companion stories told by a dozen family story-tellers. There are repeat performances of such family experiences as making sourdough bread icing drinks having babies eating watermelon living through storms and going to school--in places like west Texas the Ozarks northern Virginia southern Idaho Batesville Arkansas and Bullard Texas. These landscapes of our lives--some of them-become characters too.These are ordinary stories from ordinary people in ordinary places. Most every reader will find a story that echoes his or her experiences with just a small (or large) twist.