That's How It Was by Hazel Pacheco A slyly funny and heart-warming tribute to childhood before technology. . . The last day of the family’s annual visit to the farm is filled with intrigue. Grandma is questioned, a long-forgotten book of letters is revealed, and Operation Finders-Keeper is set into motion. Still, it takes the trip home to finally uncover the answers Randy Ray's daughter is seeking. … [Read more...] about That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco
That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco
That's How It Was by Hazel Pacheco Best described as slyly funny and heart-warming, That’s How It Was: Operation Finders Keepers is uniquely written in letter format. Written from a ten-year-old boy's perspective, Randy Ray’s letters prove to be captured moments in time just waiting to be discovered by his daughters thirty-seven years later. These treasured memories allow his daughters to get to know the boy who became their father. … [Read more...] about That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco
That’s How It Was: Operation Finders Keepers by Hazel Pacheco
That's How It Was: Operation Finders Keepers by Hazel Pacheco That’s How It Was: Operation Finders Keepers comes under “interesting children’s fiction” category. This is a unique children’s book because it is primarily done in letter format. Set in the late 1960s, the letters are to Randy Ray’s future family. His ten-year-old self shares his perspective on people, animals, and faith as he contemplates whimsical and not-so-whimsical career choices. Who would have guessed that a class … [Read more...] about That’s How It Was: Operation Finders Keepers by Hazel Pacheco
Interview with Author – Mark Scheel
Author Bio: Mark Scheel grew up in east-Kansas farm country. Prior to writing full time he served overseas in Vietnam, Thailand, West Germany, and England with the American Red Cross, taught in the English department at Emporia State University, was an information specialist with the Johnson County Library in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, and served on the editorial boards of Potpourri Publications and Kansas City Voices magazine. His short stories, poems, articles, and essays have appeared in … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Mark Scheel
Interview with Author – Mary Elizabeth Fricke
Author Bio: Mary Elizabeth Fricke has lived her entire life within five miles of the Missouri River. She and her husband of 38 years have lived 35 of those years on a farm that has been consistently owned and operated by his family for five generations. They have two grown sons married to wonderful women and two beautiful grandchildren. A graduate of the Writer's Institute of America and a member of the Heartland Writers Guild, she has published a number of articles in various forums and … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Mary Elizabeth Fricke
