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    What Would Your Father Say?: My Journey to Hope and Light
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    What Would Your Father Say?: My Journey to Hope and Light

    By Janice McDermott

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    Janices memoir leads her readers on a sometimes sad, often jubilant jaunt through her young years in a long-gone rural Iowa. Poverty, the death of her young father, and stints in an orphanage, a foster home and a convent all propel her to an adulthood where she finds peace -- with herself and with God. Janices stories -- of smoking nuns, illicit fudge, wash day, sibling rivalry, learning to drive, secret viewing of White Christmas, working at Rays Drive Inn, and searching for diamonds in the privy -- engage the adventuresome and the quirky sides of all of us. And they reveal why her mother so often declared her father would be turning over in his grave if he knew what they were doing! Readers will find hope, faith and trust in a Power greater than we are as they travel this journey with her.

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    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateFeb 24, 2011
    ISBN9781456720148
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    What Would Your Father Say?: My Journey to Hope and Light
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    Janice McDermott

    Janice McDermott grew up in a small town in eastern Iowa. She was the second of five children born to parents who had five kids in nine years before her father died. Even though she was not in a family that encouraged dreaming, she always dreamed of writing this story. Even as a child she found herself thinking that her life would make a good story. She has M. A. degrees in Montessori Education and in Curriculum and Instruction, has taught in inner city schools for twenty-nine years, and worked as a Regional Manager for the Colorado Department of Education for eight years. She now works as a leadership coach, helping school administrators in Colorado and across the country to become the best leaders they can be. She continues her commitment made in the fourth grade to make sure that all teachers in every classroom believe that there is no excuse for their students not succeeding. She has been married for thirty-eight years. They have two daughters who are married and two grandsons.

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