How old are you right now? What is your fondest memory of your childhood? What is the best time you ever had in your life? Stay with that thought for a few moments. Lose yourself in reminiscing. Stop! Come back now! That jolt back to reality is how it feels when you find yourself in your mid-sixties, wondering, "Where has time gone?" You don"t feel old; you don"t look old; so you must not be old. The only thing different, as far as you can see, is that everyone else is younger and people expose everything they do. That makes you, even the more, wish that things, people, could experience your own childhood memories. That"s why I wrote this book. I can"t take people back four decades ago, but I can bring those times to the people through my stories.
Born in 1947 and raised in the small town of Mebane, North Carolina, Evelyn Holt-Fuller has been writing since she was twelve years old, albeit mostly classroom poems, essays and short stories. In 1976, she became employed as a legal secretary and editorial assistant at Duke University School of Law in Durham, finally moving there in 1992. Duke"s educational incentive program, Paths for Employee Progress, allowed her to work while pursuing her degree at North Carolina Central University, where she was staff editor for The Campus Echo. Prior to retiring from Duke in 1995, she was honorably mentioned in two scholarly law school publications for her clerical assistance. She started a second career with Durham Public Schools in 1995. In 2002, Don"t Mind If I Do (classroom warm-up exercises), was published by a private, educational publishing company. Later, her poem, "Wisdom and Truth," (2004), was published in a poetry anthology. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге To My Brown Babies (Evelyn Holt-Fuller)