A little about me: I was born and raised in West Chicago, 30 miles west of Chicago. I met my husband, Galen, at Illinois State University in the spring of 1965 and we were married in the summer of 1966. We lived in northwest Illinois for 19 years before loading up our Corolla and moving to San Antonio. We moved because we'd never lived in a big city before. After living in the big city for almost twenty years, we got rid of our house and much of our stuff once again and moved into an RV. We traveled all over the U.S. and Canada for nearly 13 years but now the RV is parked behind our 1931 adobe home in the beautiful San Luis Valley in Colorado. We have one grown daughter and eight chickens.
This photo of us is on the cover of our CD. We play old time music.
About my books: On a whim, way back in the early 1990s, I loaded an 1881 microfilm of the first six months of the
San Antonio Light newspaper into a reader and one of the first stories I read was "The Coffin War." (It is the last story in the book but feel free to read
it first or read it on this blog.) I laughed out loud in the library and from that time on I was hooked on news that is at least a century old. Next step
was collecting the most interesting, historical, amusing, and weird bits of
news so I could share them with Galen. I
wrote out short items by hand and made copies of longer articles and
then typed everything into the computer. Years later, after we moved out of the RV, the best of the news from the years 1881-1883 was compiled into a
Kindle book originally called THE COFFIN WAR but changed to TEXAS CLIPPINGS after I published two more CLIPPINGS BOOKS.
It was never my plan to compile more books but publishing TEXAS CLIPPINGS made me want to read more old newspapers from different times and places. CHICAGO CLIPPINGS (1912) was published on August 24, 2015, OREGON CLIPPINGS (1899) will be published in October 2015. I expect publication of VERMONT CLIPPINGS (1884) in November.
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