If you like true tales that make you laugh or cry or say, "I didn't know that," or "that's interesting," then you'll enjoy this compilation of personal essays about the author's unconventional Irish mother, her English hometown, her reluctant European travels, and her life in California's foothills.About the Author: Born and raised in England's East Midlands, Pauline Nevins immigrated to America with two small children. Within three weeks of arriving in California on a Greyhound bus, she was employed. While working and raising a family, Pauline achieved her goal of a college degree-a dream denied in her working-class hometown. Following retirement from State Government she published her first book, a memoir: "Fudge" the Downs and Ups of a Biracial, Half-Irish British War Baby." The author lives in the Northern California foot-hills with her husband of more than four decades. A member of two writing groups and a freelance columnist, when she's not writing she's watching Canada geese fly, ducks paddle on her lake, and deer romp over the dam.