Joyce Carter:  

After graduation in 1957, I attended Lowell State College (now University of Lowell). I majored in music education and graduated in 1961. I was supervisor of music in the Littleton public school system for three years. In my sophmore year of college, I met a Norwich University cadet and married him in 1964 when he was a fourth year medical school student. We spent his internsip in Grand Rapids, MI where our first daughter,, Linda was born. Residency was in Columbus, Ohio where Julie made her debut. After two years in the service, we moved back to Mass to the Springfield area. I took time off from work to raise the girls, and in 1987 I took on the position with the Springfield Literacy Network as coordinator of their ESL and citizenship volunteer training program for four years. In 1989, my husband, a psychiatrist, and I took a 25th wedding anniversary trip to Maui, HI. We both fell in love with the islands and purchased a few weeks of timeshare there, returning annually. Always interested in writing, in 1991 I took a course in writing for children but was never published. In 2000 we met a Hawaiian family whom we adopted and who adopted us. In 2001 I was instructed to write a book about about my tra...Expand for more