...From the collectivity of the stories of our grandmothers untold and for all of their very great- and very grand-children, here, I hope, is the book they would have written. Here is their power, their strength, their pain, their ways, and their better days. Here are their woes and their problem solving, their laughter and their haughty, naughty ways. Here, too, are our stories, the ones we would put in our hope chest, woven into tapestries, knowing that we today are the ancestors of tomorrow.

And, as you read of these our Sister Days, somewhere beyond our Grandmas smile. Somewhere, our Grandpas glance upon the docks of our day and look to the horizons their dreams helped paint. 

For you to read, these are the stories they have told me to keep, the measure of our Sister Days, their inspired moments . . . 

— from the Introduction to Sister Days by Janus Adams