pNita Leland's memoir, emBorn Creativeem, is meaningful to anyone who yearns to be more creative while coping with a topsy-turvy family life. ppemBorn Creativeem begins with a bright-eyed, hopeful child's longing to be an artist. When Nita's well-meaning parents insist that she focus on teaching English, her desire to be an artist fades away.ppbrppWill she ever recover her passion to paintppbrppNita marries her high school sweetheart and they move four thousand miles from Ohio to Issoudun, a village near Chateauroux Air Force base in France. Nita experiences extreme culture shock, as she struggles to overcome isolation and improve her pathetic domestic skills. Explorations in Bob's sports car open her eyes to the beautiful French countryside.ppbrppAfter returning to Ohio, Bob finishes law school while Nita adopts the 1960s lifestyle of the feminine mystique. She is a frazzled, stay-at-home mother of four kids-cooking, ironing and driving carpools-sleepwalking in suburbia.ppbrppThinking