: About Me

I live in the beautiful Wenatchee Valley in Washington State. I have three grown daughters, a beautiful granddaughter, and a wonderful husband, who is a middle-school science teacher. I was born in Michigan, grew up in Ontario, Canada, and graduated from a small private college in Spring Arbor, Michigan. I met my Washington-born husband while teaching science and math in the Dominican Republic, and we settled in Washington State. Although I've held a valid teaching certificate since 1995, currently I'm working as a social worker. My mother taught me when I was young 'Only one life, 'twill soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last' and that is my motto.

My passion is ...

to leave the world a better place than when I entered

I know too much about ...

my family's genealogy

My parents always told me ...

to do my best

My childhood ambition ...

to be a doctor. I wanted to make people feel better.

My favorite memory ...

the birth of my granddaughter

Why I write ...

because I express myself so much better in writing than when I speak

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

whatever is around me...newspaper, television, radio, people in the room

My first job ...

a nursing assistant when in high school

My best moment ...

getting married

My inspiration ...

my dad

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs My true garden story

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When my mother-in-law Adria married Oliver in 1939, one of their gifts was a rose bush. In a protected area next to their first home, she planted that rose bush. Every June a multitude of lovely, splendidly fragrant pink roses blossomed. It thrived, growing to more than ten feet tall. Oliver was the love of her life. Since that rose bush was his favorite plant out of all the things she grew - and she grew most everything - she took especially good care of it. Adria was an avid gardener of fruits, vegetables and flowers, a nurturer of all things "garden". Other than Oliver, her garden was h...

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