This will be a book of poems about my husband Larry. So far, I'm only planning a black and white book cover with no images on the inside.
A children's book about an infant who came to school with his mom at my school in Agate, Colorado. He grew to be a toddler and is now a grown man living in North Dakota.
A children's book about a border collie who has a friend, Lady, and can't find her
A children's book about a nine-year-old who wants and gets his first pair of cowboy boots
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A native Coloradoan, I have lived my entire life in my birth state. I was born in Cañon City and moved with my family to Pueblo, where I attended Pueblo schools through high school. When my mom and dad and younger sister were in Lake County (our parents fished the streams there), I saw a country school, a one-teacher school with an adjacent teacherage, and fell in love with the idea of being a country school teacher.
After I graduated from Western State College in Gunnison, my first position fulfilled my dream of being in a one-teacher country school, where I worked for three years before moving to the Denver area with my husband and children. Along with my certification as a teacher, I had completed a minor in library science, and in the metropolitan area I worked as a bookmobile librarian before returning to teaching. My years were spent as an elementary public school teacher and then as a teacher at the nationally recognized National Jewish Hospital, where my students were children with asthma and other respiratory diseases.
I have an M.A. in educational administration and worked in positions that require that degree: as director of education at Fort Logan State Hospital and as a school superintendent for an eastern plains school district. I am pleased to have also been one of the first Head Start teachers in the nation (in the Englewood Public Schools). Because there are no one-teacher schools listed in the directory of Colorado public schools, I am probably one of the last teachers to have taught in a one-teacher country school in the state.
For twenty years, I volunteered in summers with the watercolorist-in-residence at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, where I became a watercolor artist. It was there that I began writing poetry, although I had been writing stories for children for years. I continue to write poetry and children’s stories as well as a blog, Cranky Crone News (crankycronenews.com). Cranky Crone News is published every Wednesday at 10 am. My poetry appears in the monthly newsletter of the Denver Gem and Mineral Guild, Tips and Chips.
Be sure to check out my blog-site. Writing and self-publishing online has been, hands-down, the most fun I've had in the last seven years!
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This is a book which I helped edit, and have also contributed two articles - one is about widowhood, and the other is about painting at Ghost Ranch with Pomona Hallenbeck.
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