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I was born in Ohio in 1953. We moved around because my parents did not get along. We kids spent one year in an institutional home near Pittsburgh. My dad took us to Oregon when I was in high school, accepting a job offer there to get me away from the drug culture and radical politics found in the Cleveland area. Despite my uneven high school record, I was accepted at Portland State in Oregon, later transferring to Columbia University in NYC from on the advice of a professor. Politics were nauseating at the time, '74, and I was undergoing a radical shift in my political orientation. I worked in a freight forwarder's office, then in a college library and studied Art History in New York. There, at age twenty, I married my boyfriend from Ohio. He left New York after a year back to Ohio and was caught by God while there. Eventually, so was I, caught by God. The encounter was so transforming that I left college with my degree uncompleted. We moved to a small town in Ohio, raised and home schooled five sons and a daughter.

I made good use of my local library and later found that what I was is known by the term "autodidact". Raising children allowed leisure for reading and my tastes in that were eclectic, but tended to history, often through biography, and literature. Twenty-five years after leaving New York, I went back to C.U. and finished my degree over a summer. I taught high school for three years, also homeschooling my dyslexic youngest for two of those years. Currently, I teach Freshman Composition as adjunct faculty at Lakeland Community College in Willoughby, Ohio. This is much easier than either high school or home schooling; I am finding my way into the working world. I also pleasurably pursue a master's degree in American History and Government at Ashland University through their summer program.

By no right nor reason have I an excuse for writing about or even thinking in any serious way about politics and world events. I always have, since I was a girl. Happily, this is America and I may.

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