Angels Watching
Memoirs of a Country Girl from Wakarusa
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At nearly six feet, Babe towered above Nora, and she liked that. Most of the men in her family--her dad and seven brothers--were small and wiry. It felt good to look up to a man. Way up. She liked Babe's jovial sense of humor, his boisterous laugh, his penchant for mimicry, and his playful teasing. She was used to teasing from her brothers, but this was a different kind of teasing, and she liked it.
Babe and Nora began keeping company right away, making arrangements to see each other as often as possible. When they were together Nora donned "English" clothes, loosened her dark tresses and left her prayer cap and bonnet at home.
Nora's parents, Ed and Amanda, hoped her little fling with the English boy would end soon and she would return to the Amish way of life. But....
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Angels Watching follows the unlikely pathway of a shy little country girl from a small town in Indiana as she breaks out of the mold in which life has placed her, becomes the first of her family to go to college, follows a call to mission, greets life's joys and weathers its sorrows with faith, tenacity and wit, and continues to welcome new challenges as she approaches her eightieth birthday and looks forward to her one hundredth.
With humor and reverence she tells of growing up poor in a large family where "dysfunctional was normal" - but where love, loyalty, hard work and ingenuity won out. She tells of her first angel sighting as a young child, and of many times throughout her life when she knew that angels were watching over her.
About the Author
Shirley Gall McMillan lives and writes in Wilmore, Kentucky. She has done mission work in Nigeria and Haiti, has been a magazine editor, and coordinated public relations for a children's home. She is communications coordinator for International Christian Development Mission (ICDM), which ministers in Haiti.
She collaborated in writing Sod Hut to Ivied Halls, the memoirs of A. D. Albright, published by AuthorHouse in 2006. Her next book will be a volume of poetry.