Poetry may be next for Norma
Easter brings hope, thoughts of beautiful spring flowers, abundant fields of grain, new life, and enthusiasm for living. You just want to be outdoors with those blossoms, the green grass, and trees bursting with new, shining leaves. If ever I was tempted to wrote a poem or sing a song, it is now! So, watch out!
I'm back to reading again. In the past week I have read a variety of books, One was "The Peking Story" by David Kidd. Of the last days of old China, it is the personal experience of the writer and to me quite interesting, maybe because I was there several years ago.
Our "Marion" writer, Jim Lehrer, has a new book, published in 2000. He lived in Marion when he was in the fifth grade. He was in my daughter Mary's class. His father ran an old beat-up bus between Wichita, McPherson, and Marion to Emporia. So we can kinda claim him. I met him last fall in Salina where he was giving a speech and Mary made his introduction. I like his first book, "We Were Dreamers," because it was about his growing up in Marion and other places. He has written 14 books, this new one, "The Special Prisoner," is a terrible story about the terrible treatment of the POWs in Japan during WW II.
"Long Way From Home," by Tom Brokaw was published in 2002. It's about his childhood and growing up in South Dakota. I learned he wasn't always the smooth talking author that he appears to be today. From the pictures, he was always handsome. So cheer up! There still is hope for all of us!
— NORMA HANNAFORD
