A Sugary Frosting: A Memoir of a Girlhood Spent in a Parsonage
How I Survived Being a Preacher’s Kid
This memoir reveals an underside of being the preacher’s kid, a public role that is rife with challenges of supporting your minister father and your minister’s-wife mother and of becoming yourself, a person they may not have expected to come out of their household. Relationships in this memoir are portrayed honestly and sometimes not flatteringly. A Sugary Frosting, a phrase derived from Martha’s journals, is a memoir of surviving religious idealism and inherited belief to undertake to become one’s self.
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My family, c. 1962

Hadwen Park Congregational Church
Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester, in the sandbox

Birthday Party, c. 1958

Second Congregational Church
Athol, Massachusetts

Me, school photo, c 1966