By Louise Fleming
With Illustrations by Charlene Blackburn

Imagine it. Leaving your busy city life, your laptop and iphone 4, your hectic job-- and heading for the hills. Or mountains, rather. The Ozarks, to be more specific. Peace and quiet, fresh air and nature....and you.

Well, to help you imagine what life might be like up there, Louise Fleming shares her impressions and day-to-day in the Ozarks. Through poems and journal entries we learn just how different life could be. We learn that it is indeed possible to take things at a different pace.

This volume by Baxter Bulletin columnist Louise Fleming contains her observations on daily life in the Ozarks. Those who are fans of Louise will surely enjoy it, and those who are new to her writings will find the reports of 1995 happenings to be, if not earthshaking, most pleasant.

She begins with a poem, inspired by the view from her front door when she opened it early on January 6 and found the remains of an overnight ice storm --

At first light, I see
a squashed euonymus
And that is ominous.

She writes of the kindnesses of neighbors, sprinkling in references to things that were happening in the world at the time, which seems to put our lives into some sort of perspective that we all may lose in our forced march through the over-full days we live in.

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