{"id":339,"date":"2010-05-21T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=339"},"modified":"2010-05-21T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T13:34:00","slug":"author-stephanie-grace-whitson-her-mom-16-brides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/author-stephanie-grace-whitson-her-mom-16-brides","title":{"rendered":"Author Stephanie Grace Whitson &amp; Her Mom &amp; 16 Brides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: -moz-zoom-in; width: 461px; height: 576px;\" alt=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?ui=2&amp;ik=e2464dcee9&amp;view=att&amp;th=1286f54029f00f0e&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=inline&amp;zw\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?ui=2&amp;ik=e2464dcee9&amp;view=att&amp;th=1286f54029f00f0e&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=inline&amp;zw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My guest today is Stephanie Grace Whitson, a woman I personally admire for her perseverance and cheerful spirit. Here&#8217;s Stephanie:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mother, 1913-1996<\/p>\n<p>     My Mother was born into the world portrayed in the film Titanic, but she never knew the delights of elegant teas and high-button shoes. Instead, she knew hard work and harsh words. She knew walking into the living room to discover her own mother laid out for a wake. She knew rocking her baby sister and handing that sister over to a &#8220;woman who is going to help us with the baby&#8221; and then never seeing that baby again, because Elsie Ruth was given to an adoption agency. She knew being taken to stay with relatives who didn&#8217;t want her until she was old enough to keep house for her father. She knew being retrieved from those relative and relegated to the role of housekeeper and cook. She knew having the breakfast biscuits tossed across the room because they weren&#8217;t fluffy enough. . . and other things of which she never spoke. She knew being told to pack her suit case when she was a teenager. She knew what it was like to be driven to a nearby town and put out on a street corner. She knew being wished a good life, and watching as her father drove away. And because of that awful day, my mother came to know love.<\/p>\n<p>     She went door to door looking for work. &#8220;Do you need your house cleaned? Do you need a cook? Can I do your laundry?&#8221; Climbing the steps to the front door of the biggest house in town, Mother found herself face to face with a woman who invited her in and allowed her to clean a room. In the process of cleaning that room, Mother found some pennies under the bed. When Mrs. W. came in to check her work, she literally pulled on a white glove and checked the furniture. Then she asked about the pennies. &#8220;I found those under the bed when I was cleaning,&#8221; Mother said. &#8220;You&#8217;re an honest girl,&#8221; Mrs. W. said. &#8220;You have a job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     Mrs. W. expected a lot, but Mother worked hard. She went on to a job at a dress factory and, at last, friendship with a girl named Pearl who shared her own mother with a lonely girl. Bertha Mae Johnson was love in action. Her tiny shotgun house was lighted by coal oil lamps and filled with blooming African violets. At Mom Johnson&#8217;s, my Mother felt safe, perhaps for the first time in her life. Pearl eventually arranged a blind date for my Mother with a tall, slim, truck driver named Grayson. Together they built a life and raised four children.<\/p>\n<p>     My mother wasn&#8217;t always mentally stable. She had a terrible temper. Sometimes she lost her grip on reality. When I see my Mother in heaven someday, it will be the very first time I will see her finally, truly happy. In the meantime, I honor her ability to rise above the nightmare of her own youth and build a marriage that lasted for nearly sixty years and raise four reasonably sane children (the jury is still out on me). In her own way, my Mother was a great woman. She lasted. She stuck. She stayed. She served. She loved&#8211;as much as she could. And it was enough.&#8221;&#8211;Stephanie Grace Whitson<\/p>\n<p>I must agree, Stephanie. With that kind of history she could have let life defeat her. And I also look forward to seeing a mother happier in heaven than she was on earth.<br \/>More about this author:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\">Stephanie  writes historical fiction. . . and rides a motorcycle. She writes  contemporary  fiction. . . and loves tromping around old cemeteries. Wife, homemaker,  mother, and grandmother, Stephanie Grace Whitson has made a career out  of playing with imaginary friends, and it all started in an abandoned  pioneer cemetery. This one&#8217;s graves are scattered on a tiny corner of  land near where the Whitson family lived in the 1990&#8217;s&#8211;mostly providing   comic relief for the <i>real<\/i> country folk in the area.  That  cemetery provided not only a hands-on history lesson for Stephanie&#8217;s  home schooled children but also a topic of personal study as she began  to read about and be encouraged by the pioneer women who settled the  American West.  Since writing had always been a favorite hobby,  it was only natural for Stephanie to begin jotting down scenes in the  life of a nameless woman crossing Nebraska on the Oregon Trail.  Eventually  that story took on a life of its own and Stephanie sent off a query  letter&#8211;expecting instant rejection.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>      <span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\">God  had a different plan. He blessed Stephanie&#8217;s beginnings, putting two  of her three first books on the ECPA best-seller list and making two  of her first nine books finalists for the Christy Award. Other awards  have followed, but Stephanie considers her most precious &#8220;award&#8221;  the reader letters that share how God has used Whitson-authored novels  to bless lives. &#8220;It&#8217;s astonishing, humbling, and encouraging. I  can&#8217;t really put it into words&#8211;and I can usually find words for just  about everything!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/S_aMVv7LUQI\/AAAAAAAAA6A\/CbRctqDLioo\/s1600\/Whitson-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/S_aMVv7LUQI\/AAAAAAAAA6A\/CbRctqDLioo\/s320\/Whitson-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473716702385230082\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\">With  the spring 2010 release of <i>Sixteen Brides<\/i> (Bethany House  Publishers),  she will have eighteen novels and a non-fiction book on &#8220;how to  help a grieving friend&#8221; to her credit.  She&#8217;s also working  on a quilt documentation project to be released as a book about pioneer  women and sod house homemaking in 2011.  Along with antique quilts  and pioneer women&#8217;s history, French, Italian, and Hawaiian language  and culture remain passionate interests.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>      <span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\">&#8220;The  flip side of writing,&#8221; Stephanie says, &#8220;is being asked to  teach writing or to speak at various events.&#8221; She has developed  a menu of lectures and workshops that &#8220;provide opportunities for  me to travel and get to know not only other writers and history lovers,  but also students and quilters. I love sequestering myself in a library  to do research, but the speaking part of my career has provided some  unique and wonderful memories.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>      <span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\">And  then there&#8217;s Kitty. . . her motorcycle.  &#8220;In some ways I&#8217;m  57,&#8221; she says, &#8220;in others I&#8217;m probably about 17. It all depends  on the day.&#8221; On days when her virtual age leans towards the younger  side of that equation, she&#8217;s been known to wake up in the morning and  decide to ride Kitty to Canada that day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>      <span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\">  In addition to keeping up with her five grown children and two  grandchildren,  Stephanie enjoys motorcycle trips with her blended family (she was  widowed  in 2001 and remarried in 2003) and church friends as well as  volunteering  at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum. She is currently  in graduate school pursuing a Master of Historical Studies degree. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephaniewhitson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.stephaniewhitson.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"><a href=\"mailto:stephanie@stephaniewhitson.com\" target=\"_blank\">stephanie@stephaniewhitson.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guest today is Stephanie Grace Whitson, a woman I personally admire for her perseverance and cheerful spirit. 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