My mom wrote poems about everything... her grandparents, the long forgotten coal mines where her family lived, the day she told me about my first experience with Jack Frost, how our cat lost his tail, the beautiful Christmas tree on the courthouse lawn, the night she ran a red light (a funny one), the river that ran past the house, the two trees that looked like they were dancing with each other, my brother's first bike, her Indian heritage, love poems to my dad, the poem after his death, ....I could go on and on.... About 100 have been typed and put into a home made book and there are probably 200 more. She also write the stories told to her by her grandmother that were told to her by HER grandmother....thus, we have family Civil War stories.