Jane Stringfellow Hayden is a nurse specializing in long term health care. She is also a freelance writer. Her work has been publishing in Nursing 2005 and Nursing 2007. She has won various contests for both her poetry and her short stories. Jane lives in Canton, Georgia, with her husband Mike. Together they parent four children: Becki, Jamye, Lauren, and Michael. Jane is also the proud grandmother of Olivia Jane and Corrine.
From the farms and pastures of the north Georgia mountains, where pine trees grow in the brick red clay, the tradition of storytelling is alive and well. As rustic as a barbed wire fence, as homey as a light in the window, In the Pines is a collection of stories and poems told in the voice of a vanishing people. Funny, poignant, and reminiscent of events and personalities familiar to us all, you will come away feeling that someone in the book reminds you of a person you know. This is not a book about the magnolia and cotillion south, but about the lives of Appalachian people who lived a hardscrabble life at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains. So, take a journey into the lives of the Appalachian people and listen to the characters tell their stories of joys and struggles, and everyday life in the mountains, in the pines.
When Alex's father takes her to their favorite beach she brings a dandelion with her to make a special wish, but upon arrival she sees another little girl who might need the wish much more than she does..
