A Time for White Roses

About the Book

Best described as an “autobiographical essay,” A Time for White Roses is a moving account – by turns poignant, funny and profound – of Ms. Brannon’s adoption and how it has affected her.  In it we meet two remarkable women, her mother and a maiden aunt, who bridged the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries in a way that is still meaningful at the turn of the Twenty-first.  Drawing on events at the end of their long lives, Ms. Brannon reveals fascinating documentation of extraordinary paranormal events that bring her at last to a level of spirituality she had sought and not found during many years of exposure to a widely ecumenical range of traditional religious beliefs and practices.

 We learn in Roses of an out-of-body experience the author had at 14 while undergoing lung surgery and of her first meeting with a sister when they were both in their forties.  Ms. Brannon addresses a general audience in her book, but it is primarily women whose lives will most be touched by her astute and candid analysis of their role in every civilized society.  She holds up to them models of courage and wisdom that never go out of date.

About the Author

Born in 1935 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Ms. Brannon now lives in Portland, Oregon, where she tends a garden, writes and paints sporadically, and puts off washing dishes as long as possible. Married and divorced three times, she has three sons and three master’s degrees largely wasted except for the few private students she tutors now in the basics of English grammar. She is the author of Mostly Reliable Recollections and has had a great quantity of poetry published over the years.