I've Got My Big Girl Panties on: One Foot at a Time

by Darla Marx

Overview

She was born in a foothill, along the banks of the Long Toe River, just ten miles south of the Hand-High Basin. At the tender age of sixteen she was sent to the deep piny woods of East Texas, to live among the natives. With humor, and southern jargon, Darla gives the accounts of her life events from infancy in Austin, Texas, to the maturity of adulthood in Panola County. Writing a book on the power of positive thinking, and believing in something bigger then your self, Darla answers the question that haunts millions of women in America, Is this as good as it’s ever going to get? Through her experiences in child rearing, divorce, obesity, addiction, death and the affairs of the heart, she empowers all women to sing, dance, and wear red lipstick. Her journey relates to real life and how it can make or break an intelligent woman. Her views on how to wear your big girl panties, will prove, “If you can’t lose it, you can’t hide it, then dammit; decorate it.”

She was born in a foothill, along the banks of the Long Toe River, just ten miles south of the Hand-High Basin. At the tender age of sixteen she was sent to the deep piny woods of East Texas, to live among the natives. With humor, and southern jargon, Darla gives the accounts of her life events from infancy in Austin, Texas, to the maturity of adulthood in Panola County. Writing a book on the power of positive thinking, and believing in something bigger then your self, Darla answers the question that haunts millions of women in America, Is this as good as it’s ever going to get? Through her experiences in child rearing, divorce, obesity, addiction, death and the affairs of the heart, she empowers all women to sing, dance, and wear red lipstick. Her journey relates to real life and how it can make or break an intelligent woman. Her views on how to wear your big girl panties, will prove, “If you can’t lose it, you can’t hide it, then dammit; decorate it.”

She was born in a foothill, along the banks of the Long Toe River, just ten miles south of the Hand-High Basin. At the tender age of sixteen she was sent to the deep piny woods of East Texas, to live among the natives. With humor, and southern jargon, Darla gives the accounts of her life events from infancy in Austin, Texas, to the maturity of adulthood in Panola County. Writing a book on the power of positive thinking, and believing in something bigger then your self, Darla answers the question that haunts millions of women in America, Is this as good as it’s ever going to get? Through her experiences in child rearing, divorce, obesity, addiction, death and the affairs of the heart, she empowers all women to sing, dance, and wear red lipstick. Her journey relates to real life and how it can make or break an intelligent woman. Her views on how to wear your big girl panties, will prove, “If you can’t lose it, you can’t hide it, then dammit; decorate it.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452089928
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	12/09/2010
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.36(w) x 9.26(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Darla Marx is a printing specialist in The Woodlands Texas. She started her journalism career in Panola County as a photographer for the local newspaper. A poet at heart she wrote her first book ‘Rhythm’s Fate’ in the winter of 2009. Through her experiences and passion for writing she followed with her second book ‘I’ve Got My Big Girl Panties On’ in the fall of 2010.


Darla is an avid supporter of the John Ritter Research Program in Aortic and Vascular Diseases. A collaboration between The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health preventing premature death due to acute aortic dissection by engaging in ongoing research on the genetic basis of aortic disease, raising public awareness.


She believes in the power of positive thinking, engaging ideas and goals with unwavering determination. She quotes, “The secret to success starts with a dream.”