I just discovered that our precious friend Janet Eckles Perez wrote a devotional for Christian Broadcasting Network "Holding on to My Prince, and it was published on September fith. You can read it HERE … [Read more...]
A Writer is Born~Part 4
Our little girl grew up to be sweet, successful, and smart and she married a good man, just as our son married an excellent woman. I met Mary Harwell Sayler when she came to teach at a writer’s conference run by our church. Mary is a consummate poet and wonderful teacher and I drank poetry, the reading and the writing of it, like a person dying of thirst. … [Read more...]
A Writer is Born~Part 3
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...]
