Sharon Sarle:  

Life I was the nerdy salutatorian who never learned to dance or went to movies because my church did not permit such "sins." I married a professor at Evangel College (church liberal arts college) in Springfield, MO, where I received a B.A. in English and Spanish. My M.A. in English is from Southwest Missouri State University. We moved to New Jersey when our children were both under two years of age. I was on the founding faculty and head of the English Department at Passaic County College in Paterson, NJ. I then began work on a Ph.D. After two years of full-time teaching and full-time studying, I spent nine months in India doing my dissertations research on the use of periodic markets to provide government services to the rural populations there. I received my Ph.D. in Economic Geography from Rutgers University. After I separated from my husband, he took my children and hid them in Bangladesh. The story of my rescue of them from a country where a mother has no rights to her children would have made James Bond feel right at home. This was followed by about six years of keeping the children in a state of seige while my ex tried to grab them back. I kept getting calls from neighbors that he was hiding in my bushes again, and calls taking me out of the classroom to talk to police who were trying to find out about this man who kept coming to the school when there was a court order saying that he could not be there. It only stopped because he married a...Expand for more