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Tucson Festival of Books
2018
Current reads:
*The Advent of Divine Justice, by Shoghi Effendi
(spiritual guidance)
*Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding (fiction)
*Fires in Many Hearts, Doris McKay (memoir)
*The Kitab-i-Aqdas, by Baha'u'llah (spiritual guidance)
*Kim, by Rudyard Kipling (fiction)
*Mind of the Raven, by Bernd Heinrich (ornithology)
*The Billy the Kid Reader, by Frederick Nolan (history)
*Among the Hidden, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
(y-a fiction)
Psychotherapy Associates 43rd Annual
Winter Symposium, Colorado Springs
Dr. Lisa L. Smith, ASU Phoenix
Elaine Goodrich-Premo, SheridanCollege WY
Rebekah Cabrera, Principal,
Coatimundi Middle School, Rio Rico AZ
Shirley Stroud Riddle
Stark State College, Canton OH
Saraiya Kanning of Raebird Creations
Cover artist for EDEN
Marquisha Ledwell, host of Slick Talx, and
Cap III, owner of Joy Radio, Canton, Ohio
Dr. Patrick Griswold, MSU Denver
Vonnie Ackerman and Linda Colhoff-Glover
of ASAP Coalition, Rapid City, South Dakota
A thought:
If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you
want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for
hatred.
----Hinduism
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 terribly 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 have sprinted
down the long hallways 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) Hawaii, 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 recently remarried and now share space with a lovely man named Don.