I am originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa and grew up in the midst of story-tellers. I am now from the Bay Area of California, the mother of four children and grandmother to 11. I was once a music and drama student who became an art major and taught art in the San Jose, CA school system for 12 years. When my husband, Denny, retired from the factuly at the University in San Jose, we had ten wonderful years of productive retirement. After he died in 1998,I could not stop writing about the sad,strange and often humorous experiences of being suddenly single at 68 when I had never been single in m more...
