About Daisies

About the Book

About Daisies is the distillation of seven books: About Daisies, Fall Flowers, Winter Roses, Spring Sings. An Invincible Summer, . . . Myself a Carousel and Glory, the story of Catherine, a woman on a quest. She is a writer, a poet, and records her life in a journal. She is forty-five years old and a widow; and lives on Barker Hill near the town of Castleton, Vermont, amidst eleven hundred acres of trees with Mary, her teenage daughter, who walks one half-mile to catch the school bus. Her sons Kim and Steve, aspiring sculptors, study in New York City at The Arts Student League. She has Social Security and a small VA pension—bills, a worn-out Volkswagen, books and a wood-pile, but she lives in a cottage by a stream and her sons have turned her yard into a sculpture garden . . . her children are artists . . . and she has dreams . . . "Caption to appear by my picture in Vogue when I become known; that sounds better than famous—more tasteful. The picture will be on a hill—I´ll be vibrant, of course, walking briskly, or look like I am, and I´ll be tan. It´ll be close, and my chin´ll be up; and I´ll be with Polly, my pup, and among daisies and clover, you´ll see, no doubt, a buttercup. I forgot what the caption was going to be." —from About Daisies, Book I

About the Author

Catherine Crawley Clark, a graduate of Ball State University with a B.S. in English and Library Science and a M.A. in English, taught five years (grades seven through twelve) in the Indiana public schools, receiving in 1997, a Service in Education award for her work as teacher and librarian. She is the author of About Daisies, An Autobiography.