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DEEP IN THE HEART
(what a wonderful title that is!)
Immediately I am singing along with this over sixty lesbian as she introduces us to her very southern family of eccentric personalities, (that’s redundant, isnt it?)... And your heart will bend a little at the closeness of generations, and her longing for a girl of her own in spite of Bible Belt conditioning and the repressions society placed on us all...How did we prevail? How did she find her true self? She brings us along on her journey. ..Sprinkled through the book are photos from her life. I especially related to the grim prom dress photo, (me too!) and her witty story of the hoop worn to support that dress had me laughing out loud with my own past. I too am a crinoline survivor.
Rainbow Williams for Mamaraga and OLOC reporter

"And, bless your heart, you were so naive. Some of us early on realized your pretty little wrapper was on the wrong package. No matter. The love went on."   -- Carolyn Reeves, cousin in Houston, after reading "Deep"

"Deep in the Heart is a rich tale by Sheila Morris of what it was like to grow up behind the Pine Curtain of East Texas...Rural Texas can be a difficult place if you're a little butch tomboy who wants nothing more than boxing gloves for Christmas and a chance to kiss a girl on the basketball bus. This is a story of "answers unspoken to questions unasked." But more than that, it's the author's elegy for the idea of family that grounds our hopes of home and happiness even when our lives take us further and further away."
-Ed Madden, Founder and Producer, Rainbow Radio.

Sheila Morris was born and raised in rural Grimes County, Texas, and is a first-year Baby Boomer. She is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and has spent four decades working with numbers as a CPA, college instructor, stockbroker and financial advisor. As she enters the third act of her life, she wants to spend time with words. Her passion as an activist for equal rights for women, African Americans and gays and lesbians has placed her at odds with her Southern Baptist upbringing and brief calling as a minister of music.

She has overcome, and moved on.
 
She lives with her partner, Teresa Williams, and their four dogs in Columbia, South Carolina, where she has been for over thirty years.

View Sheila Morris'Book Launch at Trustus Theatre in Columbia, South Carolina