Phases of the Moon

About the Book

It took a sixty-five year old woman from Michigan to discover who she really is when she comes to terms with memories and secrets of her life. Phases of the Moon is a unique narrative of selected milestones in a Michigan woman’s life. The telling is subtle but intriguing and sometimes quirky. You will get to know Pat through her very short stories that uncover the forces that molded her personality. You will read what was and is important to her as she plods through life. Although she has not experienced a soap opera existence, you will definitely relate and enjoy what she went through as a young girl and as a mature woman. Pat hopes to share her stories and to inspire the young adults of the present and the baby boomers of her time.

About the Author

Pat is a graduate of St. Pius High Catholic School and had a strict Catholic upbringing. She attended Wayne State University in Detroit, then Eastern State University and Western University in, Michigan. All studies were geared to a career in education. She taught special needs children for 37 years. Originally from Detroit she and her husband moved to Coldwater Lake outside Coldwater, Michigan soon after they married to accept jobs in that community. After about thirty years Pat moved again with her husband to a thirty-four acre farm in Reading, Michigan. Presently she and her husband hope to scrape together enough money to escape the brutal Michigan winters and head for some sunny clime.