Gina RonhaarI was inspired by my great-grandmother who had written her own journal about her trip from Germany to the U.S. and her continuing life in America. Strangely enough, I noticed when I picked up her book, Memoirs of a Texas Pioneer Grandmother, that whe she started her book, she was exactly 72 years old - the same age as I when I started this memoir. My grandmother was born in August 1836 and I was born in August 1936 - 100 years apart. Things haven't changed: we still want to make a good life for our families and always look for the rainbow. Read More Read Less