Spending my adolescent years on a working farm, I helped

my father train the horses he rescued from abusive situations. It

was a wonderful time spent with a brave cowboy. I suppose this

second book, I am delighted to have been given the words to

write, was inspired by the constant pestering I received as a youth

on the farm by 'the flies on the walls!'

However, as all young adults do, I left the horses, pigs and

chickens behind and spent the next thirty years seeking

knowledge through life-long educational opportunities that would

ultimately allow me to follow the passion of teaching young minds

to be confident independent thinkers, while pursuing my dream of

writing books designed to help children with challenging struggles

or igniting an interest in normally unlovable, pesky insects like

'The Fly on the Wall.