Anne M.

I am a child of the 70's raised in a small Village in Southern Illinois. Muddy was a great place to grow up! Big enough that allowed my brother, sister, and I to ride our bikes, swim, climb trees, explore the old coal mine sites, pick blueberries and strawberries, visit Aunts, Uncles, and Grandma; but small enough that when we heard the bell that Mom sounded, we scurried home to wash up for supper. Sounds like Walton's Mountain, only nestled in the Shawnee Hills of the Ozark Mountains. When speeding along the country roads,my car kicked up so much dust, it bothered the cattle. I spent most of my Junior and Senior years grounded for that offense! And, so I spent most of the time grounded, reading or playing music in my room or the old doll house by the dogs' pen. We kept our doors unlocked until I went down South to attend Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL, because the Nearest town to Muddy had both a ROBBERY and a MURDER! Ooooooooo!
After graduating with a B.A. in Communication Arts in 1980 I spent 8 years in Mobile working in Broadcast Journalism at WKRG covering everything from the Miss Teen America Telecast to Mardi Gras. (Mobile, not New Orleans, started the celebration.) I also produced and edited a Newscast for children that aired on the weekend prior to moving to Birmingham to become a Federal Civil Civil Servant. While in Birmingham, I lived on the Southside which may explain my eclectic taste in Books and Music. (Mystery, Grafton, Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine, Elizabeth George, Cromwell, James Lee Burke, Ian Rankin, etc., Thrillers-Thor, Vince Flynn W E B Griffin, Michael Connelly, Steve Martini, S King, Bentley Little etc., Vintage Crime-Hammett, Barnoness James, Christie, Chandler, etc., Literary-Shreve, Atwood, Phillpa Gregory, Oates, Bronte, De Maurier, Austin, etc. I adore Hemingway, what a man and author!
As a Journalist, a Writer, a Photographer, and as a Public Servant, I receive(d) both favorable and unfavorable comments on my work. I hate the Drive Bys who rate your work a 1 because they do not agree with you or your POV. I don't have too many hours to waste reading rubbish, do you?
After taking a break, my musings will focus on my late mother Eleanor Jarvis Molinarolo, foremost a teacher. We lost this amazing lady to a brain aneurysm October 20, 2006. While back in Muddy between Thanksgiving and New Years, I've started to reread Mom's favorite Mysteries, Thrillers, Classics, Literary, deliciously Dark Thrillers, and Nonfiction and packed what she had just read or was reading at the time of her untimely death and I thought it would be fun to read her Reading list and review those books in 2008.