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When I was in eighth grade, my teacher sent my poem “Stars” to the National High School Poetry Association, and I was soon a published author inYoung America Sings, an anthology of Texas high school poetry. Forty years later, I sent an article on fire safety to Happiness magazine, and it was published. In between, I went to high school, played clarinet in the band, was a majorette, and graduated. Then I got married to Jack and had three sons, David (an angel in heaven), Rex, and Scott. I attended college, graduated with a teaching certificate, and had a fourth son, Kelly. I taught children in elementary school for twenty-two years. Writing was the farthest thing from my mind.
Before I knew it, my sons were grown and married. Now I have five granddaughters (one also an angel in heaven), two grandsons, two great-grandsons, and a great-granddaughter. (I married very young.)
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| Me Today |
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We live in the country. Our house cat, Sugar, lets us feed her and clean up after her. Sometimes deer come to our pond to drink, and an occasional raccoon family pays a visit. A roadrunner sometimes looks in our door.
Blue jays, cardinals, house finches, sparrows, field larks, red-winged blackbirds, woodpeckers, and other birds enjoy dining on the seeds I put out. Country life is great.
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We’re both retired, Jack from firefighting, me from teaching. We like to travel. I co-teach a women's Sunday school class. To relax, I play the piano, try to make flowers grow under the hot Texas sun with little water, and have discovered many interesting ancestors in my genealogy research.
And I write most every day.
God bless.
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The farmer boy who The orphan girl who
moved to the city rode the train from Brooklyn
And met the girl who And fell in love with the boy
was oh so pretty. who was so good lookin'.
In Heaven, Together Forever
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