My great grandmother sat on top of the piano. Her piercing ice-blue eyes mesmerized and hypnotized me, and no matter where I stood in my grandmother’s farmhouse parlor, those eyes in that oil painting saw me. Sitting at the piano bench beside my grandmother as she practiced her hymns for...
All while bearing children, Clara was a farmer’s wife. Some speculate that having children was a strategic move to man the farm. Perhaps that is true. Today we women know the effects of giving birth on our bodies. I imagine that Clara suffered some negative effects, but kept silent in ...