Linda J PiferThe author has filled many roles in life: as a nurse tech for senior care, a yeoman in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War, an artist in acrylics and pastels, and as a healthcare risk manager. She never predicted that her writing hobby would be reconized someday; it was merely a way to escape stress in the work-world. Her first nationally published story for Country magazine changed that and put her on a road to create her biography/ family history, 'Ohio Girl' and five new fiction novels...so far. People we meet in life teach us the value of the human spirit - and in each person, good or bad, there is something we learn as they cross our paths. That's why I write stories about our power to push through the negatives of life. Perhaps someday people will say that I write about what I believe in - that will be enough for this writer. Linda J Pifer Read More Read Less