title: Pretty Mother's Home:  A Shakeress Daybook
author:  Vickie Cimprich 
description: Vickie Cimprich lives in Northern Kentucky with her husband John, a college professor and author. Her poetry has appeared in <i>Poetry as Prayer - Appalachian Women Speak</i> (Wind Publications, 2004), <i>The Journal of Kentucky Studies</i>, and <i>Cincinnati Poetry Review</i>. She performs with the Western Shaker Singers.
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  The Mother’s Day Mishap
  
  
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  Kathi Daley
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is
  entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2018 by Katherine Daley
  
  
  
  
  
  Version 1.0
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part
  in any form.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  I want to thank the very talented Jessica Fischer for the cover art.
  
  
  
  
  
  I so appreciate Bruce Curran, who is always ready and willing to answer my
  cyber questions; Jayme Maness for helping out with the book clubs; and Peggy
  Hyndman for helping sleuth out those pesky typos.
  
  
  
  
  
  And, of course, thanks to the readers and bloggers in my life, who make doing
  what I do possible.
  
  
  
  
  
  Thank you to Randy Ladenheim-Gil for the editing.
  
  
  
  
  
  And a special thanks to Sharon Guagl