Searching

That summer wasn't normal for the usually sleepy northern California town. Seven of its residents, including a storeowner, his son and the town's postmistress, had to act in ways that would cause major changes in their lives. Would the town ever become sleepy again and did they want that? Would they always be searching? Over it all floated hawks, dreamily distant and uninvolved with the human action below them.

Born in Portland, Oregon, Carol graduated from Willamette University in Salem and obtained her Masters degree from Claremont Graduate School. She taught high school and college English for thirty-one years before retiring from high school district administration in 1998. Through much of that time she wrote articles, made conference presentations and wrote a weekly newspaper column called ＂Grace on Wheels.＂ Like her mother, Carol was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Currently, she is volunteering as a peer counselor with the Los Angeles chapter of the National MS. Society and sharing her experiences with interested people. She also edits papers sent in response to her tutoring website.