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Something About Me and My Book:: These are a few of my favorite things: science fiction (and most other books, too); stimulating conversation (she admits that should be at the top of the list); any shades of pink and purple; and trying new things and visiting new places (especially with my grandchildren).

This is what you may want to know: I has a masters' degree in Communications and Urban Studies from Michigan State. The Urban Studies component enabled me to be an economic development director, bringing jobs to communities. The communications focus has allowed me to teach public speaking, English and writing at the college level, starting with a public speaking class at a military base. I never planned to teach public speaking because I didn't take the course in college—out of fear. Neither did I plan to go into the Peace Corps but volunteered after my children left home and was in the first group ever to go into Kazakhstan.

I returned to my birthplace, Holland, Michigan, three years ago from Detroit where many of my friends were nuns and other activists. I am now an adjunct instructor at Davenport University where I try to challenge my students to take up the tools of verbal and written communication, our greatest resources for "being the changes we wish to see in the world" (Gandhi).

[More information about the author can be found on her Amazon author page at https://www.amazon.com/author/jelferdink.]

My novel, Pieces of You, is especially fr readers who like an unusual love story that mixes the supernatural with issues of our time, a story that makes you think and feel, a story that may even answer some of your questions about life and an afterlife.