Author, educator, bon vivant, mother and grandmother. I love all things vintage. In order to preserve midcentury family history for our grandchildren and other fabulous people who enjoy a retrospective view of a simpler time, my friends and I chronicled our growing up years in the book "Parties and Porches: Vintage Style Entertaining...Food, Flowers, and Fabulous Women. It is our hope that readers will be transported to another time when the importance of family, food, friends, faith, community, and gratitude for the wonders and miracles of everyday life, were imparted to us on the porches of the family home. Gracious women. Warm hospitality. Hearth and home. Come celebrate a year of vintage style entertaining with the women who came of age in midcentury.