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My Life So Far.....

I've always felt I was born into the wrong century. Even when I was little my favorite books were historical fiction: Caddie Woodlawn, Little House in the Big Woods, The Bronze Bow, and Witch of Blackbird Pond. Since I couldn't change the year of my birth, I write historical fiction instead. I live with my husband, my three children and an ever-changing variety of animals and wildlife on a ridgetop farm in southwestern Wisconsin, where sometimes I can pretend I'm living in the olden days. My 100 year old farmhouse is heated with wood, and in the winter I cook on a wood-burning cookstove that's even older than the house. My favorite activities, next to writing, are riding my bike, weeding the garden, and learning to play the guitar (which I usually do when nobody else can hear.)
Little Patty with a fish

Then

and

Now...

My Family

      Jack, Hollis, Woody, Jane, and me.

 The view from my office              Patty and Antonia  
                                  The view from my office                                      Antonia is helping me write a novel.



               On a walk                                         Jack and Gaea
                
               On a walk on our farm.                                                                          Jack and Gaea



Patty and Gaea                                                     The farm in the morning
Gaea's telling me how much she loves me.                                                     The farm in the morning


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