Patricia Annalee Kirk wrote the Biblical novel Martha's Sister Beloved Prodigal. She attended the University of Kansas through the GI Bill and graduated with a degree in Advertising and Editorial Art--when they had an art department. Her records are in the school of Architecture, but you ask her to design a house at your own risk.
She raised her son alone. One snowy day she walked up the KU hill (and I mean "up") with her seven-year-old boy in tow. He clutched his coloring book. Her mom was a Godsend, but he couldn't go there in (to hi more...