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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

 

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Hadwen Park Congregational Church
Worcester, Massachusetts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worcester, in the sandbox

Worcester, in the sandbox

Birthday Party, c. 1958

Birthday Party, c. 1958

 

Second Congregational Church Athol, Massachusetts

Second Congregational Church
Athol, Massachusetts

Martha Blowen, school photo, c 1966

Me, school photo, c 1966