Current reads:
*A History of the Arab People, by Albert Hourani
*Century of Light, by the Universal House of Justice
(history)
*Furutan, by Iran Furutan Muhajir (biography)
*I Used to Think I Was Not That Bad and Then I Got to
Know Me Better, by Dorothy Rosby (humor)
*Materialism: Moral and Social Consequences, by
Abdu'l-Missaghi Ghadirian, MD (psychology)
*Millard Salter's Last Day, by Jacob M. Appel (fiction)
*Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen (memoir)
*Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (poetry)
Shirley Stroud Riddle
Stark State College, Canton OH
Vonnie Ackerman and Linda Colhoff-Glover
of ASAP Coalition, Rapid City, South Dakota
Dr. Patrick Griswold, MSU Denver
Dr. Lisa L. Smith, ASU Phoenix
Elaine Goodrich-Premo, SheridanCollege WY
Marquisha Ledwell, host of Slick Talx, and
Cap III, owner of Joy Radio, Canton, Ohio
Rebekah Cabrera, Principal,
Coatimundi Middle School, Rio Rico AZ
Psychotherapy Associates 43rd Annual
Winter Symposium, Colorado Springs
Tucson Festival of Books
2018
Saraiya Kanning of Raebird Creations
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A thought:
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of
trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and
success achieved.
---Helen Keller
Bio
I opened my eyes to this world on September 24, 1949, in the old Army hospital at Ft. Ord, California, the
oldest child of M/Sgt Michael and Mrs. Harriet Hofer. My dad was the first American-born son of
Croatian immigrants, and my mother was the granddaughter of Prussian farmers.
In 1967 I graduated from Seaside High School, Seaside, California, and in 1977 I received an Associate
Degree in Nursing (RN) from El Paso Community College (now called Pikes Peak CC) in Colorado
Springs. I also attended Västmanlands Läns Landstings Vårdskolan (nursing school) in Västerås,
Sweden, for a year. (Yes, I can speak Swedish, although I'm a bit rusty. I could speak some Hausa at one
time, too, but all that's left of that is a couple stains on my tongue.) My nursing shoes sprinted down the
long corridors of a county jail, a renal-diabetic unit, two AIDS units and two long-term care facilities.
They tiptoed between patients lying on the floors of two over-crowded Nigerian hospitals and stood for
hours squelching in the heat of a Nigerian OR. For the last few years of my nursing career I was
HIV/AIDS certified. I retired in 2012.
While an Army brat I lived in (besides Ft. Ord) Hawai, Ohio, California, Virginia, and Germany. When
no longer "Army" I nested briefly in Colorado, Sweden, Nigeria, and several towns in California.
As you can guess, all that moving around has put me in a constant state of homesickness: I always long
to be somewhere else.
I currently call Colorado home. I share my space with a monster cat named Grey Bear and his two pet
parakeets, Bluey and Sapphire.