Ten Circles Upon the Pond: Reflections of a Prodigal Mother

In this wonderfully warm and humorous， loving and reflective book， Virginia Tranel looks at her life through the ten children she brought so joyously into this world.

In 1957， as a young Catholic-raised bride from Iowa， she headed into the rural West with her husband. Within the year she gave birth under ether to her first child. That son was a senior in college in 1978， when her tenth and last child was born—an unmedicated birth that， in a sense， symbolized her journey toward consciousness during those years of enormous social change.

Virginia Tranel traces that journey by centering one chapter on each child; she weaves back and forth in time， recapturing the dozen moves that her vagabond family made over the years as they sou