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Madalyn McKnight Stanford...aka..Elmer Fudd
Madalyn is a 66-year-old retiree, wife of a practicing Pediatrician, mother and grandmother. She started reading and writing at 5 and says, “It’s amazing what you can do growing up without television.” She resides in Memphis, TN. with husband Jim and shares his love of travel. She was born a privileged, underprivileged child of a blind father and family with meager monetary support and over abundant resources. Can’t was a forbidden word in her home. A happy, enthusiastic, talented musician father was a people magnet and made life fun. Her mother kept them clean, fed and all together, allowing for the fun. She had parents who adored each other and shared that adoration with the children. Her husband, as she describes him, is a man of great humor and compassion who has allowed her the freedom to try her wings at anything she fancied. She raised a large active family in the city of her birth. The place where in the 40s and 50s, they went to the same schools, churches and shopped at the same 5 and 10 cent stores. She has faced the familial breast cancer of the maternal side of her family and remains in awe of her mother's 90 year life span while losing her sister at 45. Grandchildren energize her. Always adventurous, she spent the summer of 1994 living in a tent she called her “Canvas Chateau” in the mountains of New Mexico leading groups hiking up into the high ranges. No longer able to backpack and climb, she has returned to writing and the stage, acting and working behind the scenes of community theatres and volunteers for numerous organizations from the arts to inner city families. Madalyn McKnight Stanford © Madalyn's book "Southern Reflections" About The Book Life in all its dimensions is a story to be told and busyness detracts from the telling. There is an ever-growing movement of journaling, scrapbooking and blogging, reminiscent of children sitting at the knee of elders to hear repeated, the story of their preceding generations. It is pictures crudely rendered on cave walls. In my genealogy research I was ecstatic to find a story to go with the facts of an ancestor's life, putting flesh on those spare bones. It’s all a part of extending our lives and influence into future generations. It’s the pain that was segregation. It’s support and guidance of loving parents. It’s loved ones that went wrong. It’s the toll of wars. It’s the assassination of a President. It’s dreams we’ve had and pets we’ve loved and feelings. How we felt about everything that transpired in our lives. It's about sharing our lives with everyone we've met along the way. If you’re looking for writing like Dan Brown, James Patterson or Barbara Kingsolver you will be disappointed. This is a work of Prose, Poetry and Essay. If you seek a touch of deceased humorist and journalist Erma Bombeck, combined with a touch of the earthiness of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, Rick Bragg, you're sure to enjoy the book. Read Southern Reflections for pleasure and a laugh or two.
It has been a pleasure getting to know Madalyn since her joining the Soul Asylum Poetry site, A creative writer, and poet, and one you must take a moment to read. Once you have you will be inclined to come back for more. Get a copy of Southern Reflections now at......
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