Flapjacks & Pot Likker

About the Book

My Belfast was not the capital of Ireland but a small, bustling community perched near the spur of a Missouri Pacific Railroad track in Grant County, Arkansas. We were poor; everybody was poor! People moved in and out often here. Timber work and farming offered subsistence. Mental illness was poorly addressed. School included the basic 3 R's: Reading, Writing, and 'Rithmetic. Belfast impacted my desire as a young girl to rise above my circumstances, and yet stay grounded in things that matter. My need to know and grow was insatiable. Every person and every event that happened formed an integral part of who I am. I want my audience to meet the people that I knew and love them as I have learned to do.

About the Author

The author, Lossie Rainbolt, known by her friends as "Smiley Face," has BA and MSE degrees from UCA at Conway, AR. She likes to share the adventures of growing up in Belfast, a small, country, railroad town in central Arkansas. Schooled by hard knocks during the Depression Era, she gradually fulfilled her version of the American Dream by defying the odds, going to college and becoming a teacher. Her teaching career has spanned more than three decades. Now in her seventies, she is still teaching at SEARK College in Pine Bluff, AR, writing stories and poems, and enjoying her grandchildren. She has traveled to fourteen foreign countries in the past seven years to experience the cultures and customs.She especially likes people, enjoys family and friends and delights in hearing from former students.