Book description
Farm and ranch women are the heart of an important American
institution, agriculture. Their strength is a critical resource for
their families and communities. This book offers those women their own
special prescription for health and well-being in one hundred small
doses. Some “capsules” remind of care to be taken daily, some to be
taken regularly, others to take as needed, several to give to family and
friends and still more to apply to the community. Reading this book
won't make you immediately “feel good” like a warm beverage or a serving
of your mother's best meal. It won't always bring a tear of nostalgia to
the eye or a longing for the good old days. But like a good tonic, these
capsules of advice and encouragement will stimulate you. You'll find
essays that will boost your morale. Others will prompt you to be
grateful. Several instruct about health matters. And some will even make
you laugh. There's no better prescription than that, is there? TEDDY
JONES, R. N., Ph. D., is a Family Nurse Practitioner. Before she and her
husband began farming his family's land near Friona, Texas, she was a
Professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of
Nursing, in Lubbock, Texas. Growing up in a rural town in central North
Texas, she spent lots of happy times with cousins on their families'
wheat and dairy farms. Those experiences and her admiration for those
who farm and ranch prompted her to develop and teach elective courses in
Rural Health Nursing. That same interest spurred her to develop the
concept for her health promotion column, “In The Middle Of It All,”
which appears monthly in “The Farmer Stockman.” She practices part-time
as a Nurse Practitioner in New Mexico and writes when she's not helping
with the farm work. SUE JANE SULLIVAN, B. S.Ed., teaches in the only
school in the only town in Borden County, Texas. That rural school is
not far from the area where she grew up, surrounded by ranches, farms
and oil wells. Like most people in farming and ranching areas, she can
and does fill many roles. She teaches English, Spanish, history and
government and coaches Interscholastic League literary events including
debate, journalism, and spelling. She's a free-lance newspaper writer
and her newsletter, “A New Song,” is a regular source of encouragement
for the special group of friends for whom she publishes it. A major
inspiration for her work is her maternal grandmother who was widowed at
41, during the Great Depression. She managed to keep and operate the
family farm and raise five children long before the term single parent
was invented.
