Crusty Old Broads: Good new post by Carroll

Nancy Anderson’s writing has taken a back seat to raising five "intriguing" children and being grandma to eleven active grandchildren. Aside from family, her passion is gardening. Her lovely back yard has been the scene of many special neighborhood and family events.

Nancy says, "Writing Deenie’s story has been a delightful way to share my own experiences and the fictionalized stories of women I have known. Many thanks to my loving husband and supportive family."Nancy lives in Sandy, Utah, with her husband, Jim, and her dog, Pepper.

Lael Jensen Littke grew up on a farm in Mink Creek, Idaho, where she herded cows and dreamed of being a writer someday. She would live in a penthouse in New York City and wear glamorous leopardskin pants (Lael saw too many movies).

After graduation from Utah State University, she went to Denver to pursue a career, but instead met a young man named George Littke whom she married. When George received a fellowship to finish his doctoral studies at New York University, Lael knew her dreams were coming true. Forget the penthouse and leopardskin pants. She settled for an excellent writing teacher at City College of New York and before long began selling short stories. When the family, which now included a small daughter, moved to California, Lael found another outstanding writing teacher at Pasadena City College and got started writing novels for young adults and children.

Her credits now include more than 40 books for young people, plus a series of three women’s novels co-authored with Nancy Anderson and Carroll Morris. She says she needs to apply for a life extension because she has at least another 40 book ideas.

Her philosophy can be summed up in this anonymous quotation:

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow, what a ride!”

Carroll Morris says, "I remember I writing some poems in 4th grade. I gave them to my teacher, and she promptly lost them! The short story I wrote in sixth grade fared better: 'The Horse’s Grave' appeared in the grade-school paper, 'The Puppy Dog’s Tale.'"

After that, Carroll’s fledgling writing career went underground for thirty years, until she wrote her first novel. She’s been writing ever since then—fiction and self-help books because she loves them and catalog copy to help put four children through college.

Carroll and husband Gary, retired three years ago to Green Valley, Arizona.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Good new post by Carroll

I realized after posting Good News and Sobering Conversation that I didn't identify myself as the writer. Pretty important when there will be three of us Crusty Old Broads contributing. I'll figure this blogging thing out soon!

Additional information: For those of you who might not know, Gary and I live south of Tucson, about 45 minutes from the border crossing at Nogales.

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Molly is happy with her life the way it is, taking the classes she loves and performing with the Fiddling Finleys. But everything changes when her husband, Hank, retires. She's still trying to adjust to this new phase of her life when he brings home a Honda Gold Wing--even though he knows she hates motorcycles! Things go from bad to worse when he joins the Temple Riders Association, a "Mormon motorcycle gang" that combines road trips with temple work.

Faced with the prospect of being left hebind when Hank rides with his rew friends, Molly starts making some changes of her own.
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