Author of The Starlight Series

I’ll start my first post as a guest blogger with good news!  We’re always on the lookout for quality content to publish on Barb’s site and thanks to the other cousin John we’ll be seeing a wide range of art (including of course, Barb’s art).   Check out the “guest blogger” page  for more info.  In the mean time I have to apologize (to the Lee Clan) for ignoring my Facebook and Myspace pages.   I’ve never really liked those sites… I was popular in high school and for me a little notoriety goes a long way.   Still, I’ve decided to put all my social networking efforts into Barb’s blog where I risk even more fame as “Barb’s cousin”.   To Barb’s fans, I’m also the tech support staff; if there’s anything I can do to make Barb’s site better please let me know.

No, the year’s date is not a typo; it’s the anniversary of a birthday.

Ninety years ago today my mother was born.  Two days later, her mother died,

Arthur and Ethel Mae Chinn Lee

just another casualty of the horrible influenza epidemic that swept the world.  My mother’s name was Janie Ethel Lee, fifth child and second daughter of Arthur Lee and Ethel Mae Chinn.  It’s amazing how the written word can record a simple birth announcement, while giving no hint of the emotional, physical and spiritual damage the new baby girl would survive.

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