Point and Shoot, Florida (YU)--Now began a series of moves, in search of work, for Heap and Brenda, then Heap and Brenda and Owen, then Heap and Brenda and Owen and Balder.

Faulkner said, "Marriage drove him to work like drought drives a fish upstream."

You get married, you have kids. Kids require the father to work. The mother stays at home and breastfeeds the child, until big enough to wean.

Since you don't want to raise an only child, you have another child, so the first child will have a brother or sister to grow up with.

So the woman is out of the workforce for five years, say.

All her skills are gone. Her energy is gone. Her intelligence isn't what it was, before children.

Heap and Brenda moved to Spruce Pine, North Carolina. To live with Jack and Karol Neff, and young John Neff, at Penland School of Handicrafts.

Jack Neff was going to throw pots, Heap was going to write. Brenda and Karol were going to work on the local economy and have babies.

This plan didn't take into consideration that (1) there was a recession on, and (2) there was no work on the local economy.

It also didn't take into consideration that (1) Jack Neff couldn't sell hand-thrown pots, and (2) Heap couldn't sell his books.

As Brenda was pregnant, and they needed an income, to pay the hospital and the doctor, in advance, and they needed an income, for truck payments, automobile insurance, and gas credit cards-Heap had bought a pickup truck when he dug at Shadows-on-the-Teche, in New Iberia-Heap took a job, as laborer in a feldspar mine.

That job ended when he laid out of work one day to look for a better job, in an adjoining county, as an alcoholism counselor-a state civil service job he was on the register for.

The bossman asked Heap, "Where were you the other day?" and Heap said, "Out looking for a better job.

The bossman said, "Well, you'd better go look today, too--I don't have any work for you today."

That's how come Heap and Brenda moved from Penland to Winston-Salem. Heap had heard about a job in Winston-Salem, through John Ehle, who owned a cabin at Penland, and owned an interest in a winemaking/cheesemaking shop in Winston-Salem that was looking for a man to work in the shop as a salesman.

Heap went to work for John in Winston-Salem.