Out of the Dust is a story about a girl, Billie Jo, her mother and father are struggling through financial hardship on the farm. The setting is Oklahoma, in 1934, and as we know, life in the thirties is very tough. The book doesn't say much about her father, but in the book, it gives me an impressio...

The Birthday I grew up in a dysfunctional but loving family. I am the oldest of six children, born in 1967, from three marriages. My mother was married to my father for about four years having two children; my brother and me. My step-father was previously married for one year and had one child, ...