Stalks Of Talk

About the Book

Against a backdrop of a booming bustling Detroit during the 40's and the fifties, a young girl grows up shaped by her Irish parents and the Dominican nuns at St. Theresa's School. Much later, married and mother of four, she moves to Austin, Texas and in one of her poems explains "I had to take breathing lessons". Along with breathing lessons, she learns to dance the two-step and the country waltz and falls in love with sculling on the Colorado river which she describes in a funny poem about the first time rowing. Essays,poems, and stories expose the stirrings of her heart as she returned to her desk time and again for in writing she dipped into her own private world. It was how she made sense of things..still is, she says as she moves into the end zone of life…still dancing the two step.

About the Author

A free lance writer, Patti Ross has written travel articles and humor pieces for magazines and newspapers for many years along with a family cook-book and a novel that's still looking for a home. A passionate reader, she wrote a book column called "The Browser" for The Kerrville Times in Kerrville Texas for 10 years and also wrote for the San Antonio Express-News. She now lives in the hill country overlooking the Guadalupe River valley.