From Hogs To Heaven: The Life Of Laurel Rae Dickinson - Softcover

Anderson, Tory C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1462043038 ISBN 13: 9781462043033

Publisher: iUniverse Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Laurel Rae Dickinson started her life during the Great Depression on an Iowa farm. The third daughter of a farmer who needed boys she was expected to command mules, drive tractors, milk the cows, and keep the old sow in line. While she did her best, in the end she didn't prove as "manly" as her two older sisters and may have been a disappointment to her father. This changed after her "accidental" entry into the nursing profession. She started out as assistant to a neurosurgeon and eventually found the high adrenaline life as an emergency room nurse where eventually she rose to be the director. Just as her career and family life should have been peaking everything started falling apart as she found herself divorced and lying in her own emergency room with a broken neck looking up at her co-workers. For many life would have ended here or at least been dimmed. For Laurel it turned out to be just a new beginning in her journey from a hog farm in Iowa to finding a bit of Heaven on Earth. Follow Laurel on her journey where, through the decisions and deeds in her life, she gives great insights into opportunity, courage, priorities, peseverence, and love.

About this title

About the Author

When Tory Anderson was studying creative writing under Leslie Norris in the creative writing program at Brigham Young University he had never considered becoming a memorist. Since then he has discovered that there is not much difference between the life of a fictional character and that of a relative or neighbor. Tory has published several short works of fiction in various magazines and journals, was the founding editor of the "Wasatch Review International: a Literary Journal", and has published the biography "The Adventures of a Common Man: The Life of Rodney Anderson". Tory lives in Levan, Ut, with his wife and eight children.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1462043038
• ISBN 13: 9781462043033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120