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While I can write a profile in a minute, The Gathering Basket took me years.  It about wore me out.  Never have I been so challenged.

So to those who braved my first drafts - which were sorry little suckers - I am forever indebted.  These folks include David Wagstaff and Sheila Cowing.

Of course there are my fellow writers who patiently listened, or read my e-mails, fraught with whining, moaning and doubt.  I should retrieve those moments and write Fear of Fiction.  Cheerful and supportive Santa Fe writers like Anne Hillerman and Judith Fein, and artist Carol Bowles, get big kudos from my camp.

But of all the people who kept me going on this project, one stands alone - my husband.  He supported, critiqued, encouraged, and listened --- draft, after draft, after draft.  He listened to every word change, sentence restructure and story change for more than five years.  And he's the one who should be writing!

I'm grateful to so many people. Thanks to two lyricists and musicians who wrote some of the most definitive lyrics of the times, which I quote in The Gathering Basket, Don Stevenson and Jerry Miller of Moby Grape. Also, thanks to Snowy Eyes and Spotted Bear of Denver, who, with the Creator, gave me the final push to finish this book."

Look for my next book, We Were the California Girls.  It's in progress and not far from completion.