AFFIRMING LIFE'S CHANGES Margaret Harlan acted in many roles through parts of ten decades. She shows the reader what it was like to be: -a child in poverty in the 1920s -a surrogate mother in a 1930s dysfunctional family -a teenager sorting out her feelings and choices about men -one of the first women selected by Uncle Sam for pilot training -a wife and mother praying for her husband's safety during World War II -a suburban farm wife striving to make her family self-sufficient -an organizer of resources for her handicapped son -an over-stressed super woman striving to cope with divisions in her marriage -a grandmother, world traveler, and writer. From thousands of pages of journals, letters, and other writings, Margaret distilled not just pictures of life, but reflections and philosophy about the many seasons she experienced. Above all, this is a book about how to live.