"Broken Dream" by Carole Coates

putting your heart and soul into the soil

A love of tilling the earth may not always be enough for making a living, but this writer believes at least for her Greatest-Generation father, it just might be what the doctor ordered for making a life.

A self-proclaimed “Memory Keeper,” Carole Coates has published Blackberries and Biscuits: Life and Times of a Smoky Mountain Girl and Boyhood Daze and Other Stories: Growing Up Happy During the Great Depression, memoirs of her parents’ lives. She is currently writing a series of essays on family ancestors. Coates has been published in Branches and Gateways literary journals and is a state Senior Games Silver Arts gold medalist. She blogs for Mother Earth News and at her own website, https://livingonthediagonal.com.