How the Wooly Worm Tried to Stop Spring

by Shirley Kennedy

During the fall of 2017, I walked out of the house and there on the walk way was a solid black wooly worm. I was amazed at it and used my phone to take a picture of it. I had no physical contact with the wooly worm and assumed that it just crawled away. With my phone, I sent a picture of the wooly worm to one of my sisters. I have five sisters and one brother. The picture of the wooly worm was sent around to the others. Wooly worms have been used to predict the weather for the winter. Later, when the weather started to get cold, I started getting text from my sisters about the wooly worm. Jokingly, they said that it was my fault that the weather was bad. As the winter produced more snow and cold weather, I received more and more text and phone calls. We had a fun time with the wooly worm picture. I love my sisters and my brother, and we have always had a close relationship. We can have fun with anything, and I feel very blessed to have the family that I have. The wooly worm became such a fun time for our family, I did not want it to just get away. Sometimes, God puts people, animals, and even little wooly worms in our lives for a reason. I hope that you enjoy this little wooly worm story as much as I have enjoyed writing it.

32 pages, Paperback

Published November 11, 2018

About the author

First place (GOLD) winner in the Romance category of the 2013 Independent Publisher (IPPY) awards for THE LAST OF LADY LANSDOWN.

I was born and raised in Fresno, California, where I graduated from Fresno High School. I lived in Canada for many years, enjoying skiing and riding horses, and am a graduate of the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada with a B.S. in Computer Science.
I've had many jobs in my lifetime, including working for several years as a computer programmer/analyst. However, my true passion has always been writing, so I quit my day job (something you're never supposed to do) and started writing Regency romances. After publishing several Regencies with Ballantine, Signet, and Camel Press, I switched genres.
Now I'm writing western romances for Kensington Lyrical Press, all taking place in the Gold Rush days of the 1850's. I love this period of time. There's so much to write about! With my shelves full of research books, I doubt I'll change genres again.
I have two daughters and am forever proud of their accomplishments--and grateful, too, that both are the kind of loving, supportive daughters every mother hopes she'll have. I live in Las Vegas, Nevada, where I belong to the Las Vegas chapter of Romance Writers of America.
I love hearing from my readers and can be reached at mailto:shirleyken360@gmail.com