Geezettes Book Two
Golden Girls on the Prairie
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The three sixty-something women had been friends since they’d entered Stuporville Elementary in the fall of 1943. World War II had been in full blaze, but the first graders didn’t even notice. Melva pictured the three-story brick building in her mind while trying to remember that first day of school.
Rena continued chattering, but she had changed the subject. She was back on the pig farm.
Melva continued daydreaming, smiling and nodding, but her eyes were not focused.
“Jeez, Mel! I must be boring you!” Rena studied her friend. “You seem to be somewhere else.”
“Oh, sorry. I was just reminiscing about our early school days. Do you remember when we started first grade? I—”
“Heavens, no!” Rena interrupted. “I don’t remember anything from that far back. I can barely remember what I had for supper last night.” Rena laughed at her own joke.
“Here comes Madge!” Melva’s blue-gray eyes brightened as she spied her friend’s profile in the frosted-glass doorway.
The two ladies stood up to greet Madge as she entered the café. Her energetic body, newly permed silver hair, and radiant smile were a welcome sight to her friends. Madge’s once-diminutive figure had increased in bulk, and her delicate facial features had disappeared as she aged. Madge looked comfortable in her own skin. After a series of bear hugs and gushy, sentimental greetings, the three women sat down to order coffee.
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The Geezettes are at it again, and the town of Stuporville is totally unprepared for what’s in store. Winter has just left the small North Dakota town, and all sorts of fun begins to spring up just as lifelong friends Rena, Melva, and Madge reunite. The three women— “the Geezettes,” as they are affectionately known by their husbands—step forward and settle in to find solutions to problems as varied as undesirable odors assaulting the town, eligible “California Women” entering the scene and stirring up local bachelors, and local small businesses fading away. When Rena decides to run for mayor, the pot really starts to boil.
Away from the public eye, though, the women also struggle with family problems, community chaos, grave health concerns, and marital strife. Even so, they struggle together, and that makes all the difference. Geezettes: Golden Girls on the Prairie, by Dr. Mary Ellen Erickson, IP Award-winning author, takes us to the heart of friendship and proves once again that there is no better place to live and grow old than small-town America.
About the Author
Mary Ellen Erickson, PhD, is a retired teacher and school counselor. She has published children’s books, juvenile fiction, and adult fiction and non-fiction. Geezettes Book Two: Golden Girls on the Prairie is her tenth book. She lives on a farm in North Dakota with her husband of fifty-two years, Dwayne.