I Reckon So

About the Book

My friend, Martha and I would sit and talk about Oklahoma and we shared a lot of good times together. We shared memories together and laughter and we would help each other when times were tough. She had suffered a stroke and we would share each others adventures as a young women and how we had met our husbands and the adventures we and our children would have. I had lost track of my dear friend Martha and I remembered a lot of things she described to me and I to her. I later found that she had passed away and her son also. I had taken notes of our friendship and I decided to write this and dedicate it in her memory.

About the Author

My name is Diamond Ann Taylor— I was born in Augusta Arkansas to Cletus and Pearly Taylor. I came from a large family consisting of 13 children, 8 boys and 5 girls. I am the 7th child of the children and the third girl. It really was cheaper back then to have a large family than it is now. My dad wanted to give my mom a diamond engagement ring to go with her wedding band. So he saved money and when he had it all, he came home and said, “Mother get ready, we are going to town.” When she asked why, he said, “I am going to buy you a diamond ring.” She flatly told my dad, “Well not today Daddy, we are having another baby.” Then her Diamond came along nine months later….. I am a mother of 3 children and my youngest child was born in Talihina, OK in the Potato Hills. I went to work at Eastern Oklahoma State College eleven years ago and it has been home to me here. I often go to Sardis Lake for fishing and swimming and look around the Potato Hills…they are beautiful especially in the fall as the leaves turn color leaving the mountain sides looking like a patch work quilt. I have traveled across the United States and 3 times across Canada. I want to go to Alaska and Hawaii then I will have been to every state in our country. I have been all around Oklahoma and Arkansas, and when the spring and fall comes it is breathtaking.