Donna Young:  

My story....hmmm. If you're from my high school days, there's a good chance you don't remember me at all. I tended to blend into the landscape. If you're from my military days, boy, have I got some 'splainin' to do!! After my first marriage failed in 1986-87 (it took some time), I joined the Air Force and worked hard at self-destruction. I challenged my upbringing and the status quo. One friend during that time called me an enigma, but it was more confusion than anything else. In the middle of the chaos I met and married Alan, my current and last husband, in Cambridgeshire, England, where we were both stationed. In 1995 we landed in Minot, ND, after a 4-year stay in upstate NY, and during our two years there I spent a lot of it on the road. Somewhere along the way I was diagnosed with a terminal illness, so when we retired we moved to Okla to be close to my family. While I still have the auto-immune disease that knocked me down, God has miraculously restored me to what resembles normal activity. I've been able to complete my doctorate in Enlish, but have not actively pursued a career in academia. I may do that down the road, but for now I am working on my first children's book and playing the puppy momma to our English Springer Spaniels when I'm not otherwise occupied being our little town's librarian two days a week. When Alan and I moved to rural Oklahoma from Okla City, we thought life would slow down, but in...Expand for more