Reflections Cogitations Thoughts Memories

About the Book

In this unique collection of short stories and poems, Teresa Diane Daniell Freeman fondly re-creates the special childhood she enjoyed on her family’s old-fashioned farm in the deep South of  a much earlier time. She takes us back to this bygone era in a wonderfully poetic and often humorous way that you will no doubt find wistful, entertaining and, above all, delightfully inspiring. Country poets are hard to come by and she is that and more.

In this writing, she recalls, usually in the voice of the child she remembers being, what the old farm life was like. You'll be caught up in the vivid recollections of a girl who grew up in a loving, yet hard working environment where you had to produce most of what you ate and wore. She speaks eloquently of a life where only a few "special" things were bought from the country store down the road and everything else came from hard work and the farm.

In both story and poem, she speaks poignantly of the fabric of her childhood -- about working hard to make the things we take for granted today (from dresses to sausage), being in church every time the doors  opened, and even of being guilty of more than a little mischief.

In "Reflections  Cogitations  Thoughts  Memories”, Diane will surely charm you… and, in her own special "down home" way, she will have you wishing that you could have grown up on that old farm with her.

About the Author

 Teresa Diane Daniell Freeman grew up as a farm girl in a small rural community called Trickum Valley. The valley lies in the foothills of Turkey Heaven Mountain (originally named Turkey Haven Mountain until local pronunciation eventually forced it to change) all located in eastern Alabama. Times were much different in that area even for the time and, during a unique childhood, she was expected to take part in all of the farm activities and chores, including helping to grow and prepare the food, which virtually all came from the field or the barn.

    Diane (as she prefers to be called) eventually married, moved from Trickum Valley and pursued a career in engineering with, and is now retired from, a power company in northern Florida. But even though she left her childhood home many years ago, she has always proudly retained her "country flavor" and has never forgotten how much she loved life on the family's old-fashioned Alabama farm.

    Now suffering from kidney failure, she spends her dialysis "down time" writing about those long past days and the experiences that are still so fresh on her mind and remain so precious to her.