Chasing a Dream

About the Book

Have you ever reminisced about the part of life where you were ending your journey as a senior in high school and becoming a freshman in college? In the 70s and 80s era, the book, Chasing a Dream, life begins anew for seven teenagers who have been friends throughout high school with two of them being friends since birth. Add another teenager whose dream does not include college, but he has definitely established his dream as a professional race car driver, you enter a world of self-discovery with relationships that range from survival, validation, scripted, acceptance, and individuation-assertion all wrapped up within the characters of Chase, Stacey, and Eric (the main characters). As with most graduating seniors who are promising to always stay in touch, so goes the story of these eight with their correspondences sort of being a hit and miss from time to time. Some friends are rarely heard of again while others remain close with communication and build a solid tight relationship that shares moments of joy, endurance, tragedy, and romance. Not all their dreams come true and new dreams emerge. However, some dreams are worth chasing no matter the cost as Chase, Stacey, and Eric set their course for their new life’s adventure.

About the Author

Peggy Harrison Gallimore is a retired Exceptional Children’s Teacher from the Davidson County School System of Lexington, North Carolina where she is a native of rural community of Silver Valley. After working with and trying to instruct children with special needs in the area of writing, she learned that she had a passion for writing. These children thought they disliked writing, but they were the very ones who had the most to tell. The problem was putting the information on paper. Peggy once felt the same way in a college classroom as a professor was bleeding their red ink pen all over her paper that she had worked so diligently on for weeks. Lesson learned: Everyone can write something! While she was teaching, she also contributed to the Lexington Dispatch by writing as a guest columnist on topics of comparing Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln’s morals to modern day morality, a poem reflecting on her Great-grandfather Grubb, and a short memoir of her belated brother, Jerry Harrison. Teaching has and will always be a component of her life as she continues with teaching a Youth Sunday School Class at her church. Being a grandmother has brought forth more joy than can be imagined in life. Family is very important to her by cherishing all family members with memories to numerous to share. Talent in the family for illustrating comes natural from the help of great-nephew, Jerry Daniel Harrison, who inspired the artistic cover of Chasing A Dream.