Bill and I got engaged and he continued with his plan to go into the Navy while I started college at the University of New Mexico. I loved my history class because the teacher was a great storyteller. I dropped out of college, however, at the end of my freshman year to marry my soul-mate, Bill. We’ll celebrate our fifty-seventh wedding anniversary September 6, 2014. I … [Read more...]
A Writer is Born ~Part 2
. LOS ALAMOS We moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico when I was thirteen. For a time, we saw atomic-bomb mushrooms from our front yard every day about noon and then it would rain. In Los Alamos we had a brand new school and the best of everything because the town belonged to the University of California. Dad was a security guard who usually worked at the main gate where everyone … [Read more...]
A Writer is Born
I was born in Lovelock, Nevada, which was on a Blackfoot Indian Reservation. My dad worked as a meat-cutter for Safeway and when Mother was expecting me, she worked in a laundry. A pregnant Blackfoot Indian, Wapun, worked alongside her, and mother was astonished when Wapun went into labor, got word to her husband, went home, had the baby, and came back all in the same day. When … [Read more...]
Book Chat
Book Chat Our very own DiVoran Lites will be a guest at Indian River City Methodist Church 's Book Chat on Friday August 15, 2014. She will be discussing her Florida Springs Triolgy novels. Her books are available on Amazon as well as locally at The Book Rack in Titusville, Florida … [Read more...]
