![]() ![]() ![]() I grew up with, and quickly adopted, the notion that reading was the only way to fill up every scrap of loose time you could snatch. ![]() My mother, widowed when I was three years old, taught school for forty-nine years in that same small town, and her major (indeed, only) extravagance was books. I began writing very early - poems, pl I grew up in a southern Ohio river town - Portsmouth - and that small town atmosphere has affected most of my writing. I had the benefit, as well, of a wide variety of aunts and uncles and cousins, plus the extended family so common to small town life - the neighbors, friends, teachers, bus drivers, mailmen, local heroes and local neĆ¢er-do-wells, and even a local eat stuff to feed the imagination. ![]() I grew up in a southern Ohio river town - Portsmouth - and that small town atmosphere has affected most of my writing. ![]()
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