My major influencer in life as an author today, was facing adversity early on, as a child, through wanting to be compassionate to anyone and everyone.  I would give everyone full attention, even if they had not done anything to earn my respect.  In fact, even rude people who would ordinarily persaude even the strongest among us to walk away, I maintained a nice attitude toward. I tried to make them my friends, even if they continually hurt or abused me with their words or their actions.  I was bullied and thought just by making every effort to harm no one, I would have everyone on my side one day.  I settled into a long-time people-pleasing mode, which would be almost three decades worth of my life. I wrote Our River of Life in order to address the people-pleasing issue which came together in an enlightening spiritual way and it remains to be seen how many people who have the problem of saying "No" will learn to stop saying "yes" to just about anyone.  Through the process of reading Our River of Life" many people-pleasers who read this book will stave off their desire to please everyone in order to fit in among the people they choose to remain around, and seek their own need to pursue their own interests away from anyone else's opinions.  Compassionate givers will need to learn how to please themselves and have compassion on themselves and they can do so by reading Our River of Life!

University of Wisconsin B.A.(History, Women's Studies and Journalism) and M.L.A.(Librarian)

Researcher for the Wisconsin Historical Society and acknowledged in the State of Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial Celebration published Book, A Wisconsin Fifteen.

Author of Our River of Life

Editor for Jay Peroni's book, Faith-Based Investor.