: About Me

Hi there,
I am a wife, mother, and grandmother who loves every minute of her life!

I have taught school now for 34 years. Wow! That is a long time. I have taught in public school, Christian school, and am now teaching four of my granddaughters in home school. In fact this the is seventh year of our home school.

I have always loved to write. Because of that I minored in English in college and took the Northwest Writing Project one summer. That was lots of fun.

I live in the Pacific Northwest and hope to publish some of my work which is filling my files right now.

My passion is ...

my love for the Lord, my family and my country.

I know too much about ...

growing older.

My parents always told me ...

to be faithful to my word.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a teacher.

My favorite memory ...

Thanksgiving and Christmas in my childhood.

Why I write ...

I want to wrrite things that help people in their lives.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I have been reading YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE by Herman Wouk

My first job ...

Second grade teacher in a small town in Idaho.

My best moment ...

Discovering that God loves me.

My inspiration ...

My love for the Lord and my desire to help people with my writing.

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Family stories and memories

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Daddy Will Be Home Soon I was born in 1941 six months before Pearl Harbor was bombed. When I was about two and a half years old my father's draft number was about to come up, so he decided to enlist in the Navy. He went through basic training at Farragut Naval Base in Idaho near our town. Storekeeper's school where he learned to take care of naval parts for machinery was his next assignment at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. From there he flew to San Francisco and shipped out to Guam in the South Pacific. Just before he went overseas, he called to tell Mommy goodbye. Hanging up the phone, she co...

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