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 The Booksmith at 283 Market St. Seneca, SC 29678 is the primary venue for An Oconee Christmas. You may contact them at 864 885-0872 or on the internet at www.thebooksmith.com, The Booksmith ships anywhere in the country! Another local vendor is Sisters Restaurant on Stamp Creek Rd. Salem, SC, call 944-8100 for directions and operating hours. You may call me at 864 944-1314 or e-mail me at
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if you have questions about the book. An Oconee Christmas is a light hearted look at The Night Before Christmas with a German Santa (in honor of Walhalla) pulled by eight Clemson Tigers instead of reindeer. Children 2 to 92 will love this one!
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Ann is in the process of gathering and cataloging the articles and columns she has written with plans to publish them into one volume--maybe two! This promises to be a challenging project. She would covet your prayers in this project! Thanks for yoursupport so far--you have been of great encouragement to her.
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 Ann Coogler's story,"Baseball's Bond" appears in Chocolate for a Teen's Dreams. Chocolate for a Teen's Dreams takes a spirited look at the importance of following your heart. These true stories, by contemporary teens and women with insightful recollections, capture the hope and promise of adolescence and the plans every young woman treasures amid academic demands, social obligations, and family pressures.
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 The cadence of drums rolled its deadening rhythm from the television. The body of our young President lay on the wheeled caisson. An atmosphere of shock and denial hung in the air of my aunt’s house.
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A Soul's Cry: My Journey to Faith |
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Ann Coogler
Copyright: Billie Lewis Publications 2007
Mental illness in a family of the Fifties and
Sixties was rarely discussed, even in a home where this disorder was
present. It was as if it would somehow go away if it weren’t mentioned.
As of 2006, 60% of the disability rewards in this country
are due to a mental disorder of some type. The pendulum has swung from
mental illness being a hidden horror, to this disease being as common as a
virus. Even though depression is now a norm in society, it still carries
an aura of unspoken shame for families affected by it.
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While Mama entertained hopes for me as a student of genteel southern graces, Daddy just wanted me to be a student. Early in my school career I was inflicted with school phobia. The first day of the first grade at Calvin H. Wiley Elementary was polio vaccine day.
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