South of Ordinary: Stirring Travel Adventures of Young Love and Self-Discovery

Judy Liautaud (JudyLiautaud.com) backpacked through Mexico, Central, and South America, flew hang gliders, and designed and manufactured hang gliding harnesses for Wasatch Wings, which she co-owned. She studied as an apprentice to become a lay midwife and delivered babies at home for seven years. She quit the profession to go back to school and graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor of science degree in psychology. Her passion today is writing books and operating City Creek Press, Inc., her publishing company, which started in 1992 (CityCreek.com). She is the author of Sunlight on My Shadow (SunlightOnMyShadow.com) a memoir, and award-winning finalist in the Next Generation Indie Awards. The book has over 400 reviews on Amazon and has had over 70,000 e-book downloads. Judy is also the author of several popular children’s educational books, including Times Tables the Fun Way, Addition the Fun Way, and Story Problems the Fun Way. Her books teach children to learn the basic math facts with cartoons and stories. She became interested in education when she co-owned a Sylvan Learning Center in Bountiful, Utah. Judy loves spending time with her grandchildren and their parents, writing and painting at their lake cabin in northern Wisconsin, biking, and hiking. She lives in Anoka, Minnesota, with her husband, Joe.