Nancy Johnson

It's 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past. Returning...

I love to write stories. For many years I have done this. I felt very blessed to have the parents that God gave me. Even though I was an only child, I was not spoiled. My parents taught me many things at an early age. They did this because they cared. They passed away early and I worked to be able to understand many things in life. I wanted this title, "Slide of Memories," like an old slide projector that can show pictures. A tribute to my parents!...

The award-winning author of Life Is Good is back with another feel-good collection of essays, both humorous and inspiring, about life in rural America that includes 40 of her favorite sweet and savory holiday recipes! A transplanted New Yorker, Nancy Carey Johnson has made a happy life with her husband, whom she lovingly calls "Grizzly Adams" and four sons in Vermont-raising them to manhood by feeding them well and frequently on hearty, wholesome...