I spent the first 18 years of life on a small farm snuggled into the hillside halfway between Welsh Settlement and Cherry Flats outside of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. My sanguine personality has been married to my phlegmatic Larry for 33 years (a lot of good writing material there, later maybe). We are the proud parents of three adult “children” (more material), in-laws of one gorgeous (inside and out) daughter in law, and grandparents to two crazy cats. I just retired as secondary principal in a small private Christian school in Bulverde, Texas.
My love of writing started in second grade with Mrs. Harrison at the Charleston Elementary School. Thirty years later, I got semi-serious about writing a memoir when my children would cry, “Mommy, tell me a story of when you were a little girl on the farm!” For the last 20 years, I have written mostly about life lessons learned growing up with a city slicker dad who yearned to be a farmer and the importance of writing down our words for generations to come. My first book, The Road Home: The Legacy that was, is, and is to Come, was published May 2013. How to Hitchhike from Texas to California in 3 Days in 14 Easy Steps came out in May of 2017 and in November, Panning for Gold in Our Golden Years: A Journal for Positive Aging.