Moving

Usually memoirs are about the very wealthy, very talented, or very famous. Now move phenomenologically with Mary Daisy above her ordinariness to look at one American female-mom-grandmom living as a hyphenate artist in theatre-film, at or below poverty level for three-quarters of a century. Born during the Great Depression in Nebraska, the sixth cousin of Abraham Lincoln, she has been face to face with famous athletes, stars, name directors, dancers, choreographers, mayors, presidents, a murdered man and his suspected murderer, gone down the Amazon in a canoe and through the Grand Canyon Colorado River rapids, helped build a house, been a professional actress, writer, director, produced and directed many shows, married once, had a baby die of neuroblastoma cancer, launched three surviving children as a single mom without child support after husband died an alcoholic, known terminal diseases and America's wars, and founded a tax-exempt theatre corporation.