Clarice Gallup candidly reveals her personal journey through life's sometimes sudden and tragic changes. Her mother died when she was a teenager and the family farm was lost shortly after. She lived through the difficult war and post war years in Minneapolis. Her marriage to a WWII serviceman begins with the traumatic birth of their hydrocephalic baby. The memoir continues through a long life that moves back and forth across the country with highs and lows, written with a positive, forward-looking enthusiasm.