"Banking on Yoga" by Deborah Rankin

Kentucky writer Deboroh Rankin encounters a memory of a beloved grandmother in a place re-purposed from what her Memie would have known. With the recollections of a powerful woman comes a transforming acceptance of change and the blessing of knowing gratitude.

Deborah Rankin is booktalklady.com. She lives in Scott County, Kentucky, where her family has farmed for over 200 years. After writing four highly technical medical research papers, she now works on a memoir, a DC-based suspense novel, and a YA/new adult Appalachian family drama. Everything she is today she owes to her parents' and grandparents' examples and encouragements to keep bearing up.