Gene K. Garrison's business card provides the information that she is a writer/photographer/artist - in that order. Her writing career began more than 30 years ago as a freelance magazine articles writer, which articles number in the range of 550, in a variety of subject matter. She juggled this with a 20-year job as feature articles writer for a local magazine in Arizona, and began writing books right after she met storyteller Hube Yates, a Southwestern pioneer, firefighter, hunting guide, and dude wrangler. After listening to him for about five minutes she knew that it was important to preserve his special way of relating his life's experiences - and his subtle sense of humor. The keyword to Garrison's writing is: it must be important to her.
Reviews of From Thunder To Breakfast have been gratifying. Rebecca Brown, editor of RebeccasReads published a fine, comprehensive one, and reviewer Elizabeth Routen got right to the soul of Hube Yates. She wrote, “Because of the book's natural language and fluid structure, it's easy to forget that the stories it tells are authentic pieces of history, and that the smiling face on the cover is not that of an actor or model, but of a man who lived a life whose merit cannot adequately be measured by words.” She described him as traditional, temperate and outrageous, flexible and morally astute. Hugh Downs wrote the foreword.
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Widowhood Happens ISBN: 1401046371 - 2002 Xlibris
Garrison's second book, Widowhood Happens, was written because a friend urged her to do it. After much soul-searching, and making a list of pros and cons, she decided that it needed to be done. She approached it in her own way, doing the original research by way of interviews with the widowed, and with professionals who do deal with their problems. Her consensus is that all people live in different circumstances, and have different problems, which they react to in different ways. She admired and appreciated the openness of the men and women she talked with, and was delighted to find out that there are solutions, help is often a phone call away, and there is hope for a life beyond the death of a spouse. It will never be the same - just different. It's important to prepare for this event in advance.
Fun is a good thing. This non-fiction book for 9-to-12-year-olds provides that, along with facts and full-color photos of wild pig-like animals that roam our Southwestern deserts.
Gene K. Garrison found that few people outside of Southwesterners have heard of the animal. They don't know how to spell it, pronounce it, and don't know what it looks like. That's the reason for the long title. For some, it's a discovery, for others a curiosity. The author photographed them when she and her husband lived in Cave Creek, Arizona. They welcomed all sorts of wildlife to their desert property, even the fierce-looking javelinas.
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Gene K. Garrison's business card provides the information that she is a writer/photographer/artist - in that order. Her writing career began more than 30 years ago as a freelance magazine articles writer, which articles number in the range of 550, in a variety of subject matter. She juggled this with a 20-year job as feature articles writer for a local magazine in Arizona, and began writing books right after she met storyteller Hube Yates, a Southwestern pioneer, firefighter, hunting guide, and dude wrangler. After listening to him for about five minutes she knew that it was important to preserve his special way of relating his life's experiences - and his subtle sense of humor. The keyword to Garrison's writing is: it must be important to her.
From Thunder To Breakfast
Widowhood Happens
Javelina! Have-uh-WHAT? (Have-uh-LEE-nah)