Biographical facts:
I was born on February 22, 1948 on a back country road near Sulphur Springs,
Arkansas.  My birth took place at home in a house that is still standing that was built in
the 1840's.  My parents were Marcella May Morris Hudson and Roy Earnest Hudson,
who married late in life.
My mother fell through an underground Indian dwelling back in 1908 near Alva, Oklahoma where her parents were living after they participated in the Land Rush when Oklahoma was
still Indian Territory.  My mother's fall caused brain damage and she never fully
matured as an adult which caused her to be unable to function as a mother.
Our father died when I was ten years old.
At the age of fourteen I ended up in Turley Children's Home near Tulsa, Oklahoma.
My childhood was marked with pain but at this stage of life I am grateful for the
struggle because I know that it is the struggle that has given me an added zest
for living and caused me to turn to writing while at the orphanage as a form of
coping. Spending my teenage years in Turley Children's Home was painful for many obvious reasons but one of the saddest memories is of the physical,emotional and sexual abuse that went on at Turley Children's Home. I reported some of the physical abuse and sexual abuse I saw occur and it only got me into trouble. There was never anything done to bring the abuse to an end. I even witnessed some of the children being sexually abused and nothing was ever done even when I had enough nerve to report it to school authorities and to our social worker at the home. What made this all so sad to me is the orphanage operated under the guise of church. Turley Children's Home no longer exists at Turley but moved to Claremore and is now known as Hope Harbor. There has been one case of rape to occur at Hope Harbor even though they have tried to sweep it under the rug and to keep it out of the newspaper, however the story did find its way into the Claremore Progress back in 2003. No doubt there are many more cases of abuse that have been kept quiet. Now that the children are being homeschooled it will become even harder for the children to report the abuse.
During my middle thirties I increasingly turned to writing and have had five books
published by small publishers.  The first three books are free verse poetry and
are titled Friendship Is A Journey(1987)The Warming of Winter (1989) To Soar
Again!(1994) and the next two are short inspirational biograpical pieces and
are titled Southern Vignettes(1995) and Turning Points (1996).
Some of the highlights of my life have been being the mother of three children who
are now grown; having been friends with Erma Bombeck who dedicated a column
to me in 1986; hosting my own Sarah Hudson-Pierce Cable Television Talk Show
with Time Warner since 1995 and being published by Guideposts magazine in
January 1998.
A dear friend asked me recently how I would sum up my life in two minutes or less
and I thought about it a few hours and replied "I would say 'I have had a good life,
I have enjoyed my life to the fullest with all of its' struggles."
At this stage of my life I realize that M. Scott Peck is right.  "Life is difficult."
However it is the struggles that makes us grow, that give us the bounce, the
resilience to keep on keeping on and it is in the attaining of goals that we blossom
and grow.  Friendship is the magic key that puts the spring in our step.
Having said all of this I know that God is the Source of my Strength and that
without God I am nothing.  He has been there for me every  step of the way.
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