An informative article about one of my favorite authors,J. A. Jance

[Ptah]

Those Who Win the Game

Tucson's J.A. Jance turns past pain into literary gain

By TOM DANEHY

I learned the truth at 17 ...

Actually, Judith Ann Jance learned a lot of hard truths before that age.
Like, it's tough growing up in a mining town in Arizona where just about
everybody's dad goes to work at a job in a giant hole in the ground,
one from which he might not return one day. Where the women
tended the company houses in which the families lived and the men,
many of whom had survived the horrors of war, worked hard and
drank hard and pretty much mortgaged their lives so that maybe
their kids could go off to college and not have to end up
working in that damned hole.

It's hard enjoying an Arizona sunset when you live in a place surrounded
by ever-growing mountains of slag created from the mining process.
And sometimes, it's hard dreaming the big dream when you live in a
place where the Event of the Year is the high school football game
against the hated Douglas Bulldogs from the border town some 20 miles away,
down in the valley where they can see the sunset if it's not obscured by the
smoke from the smelting operation around which that town's economy is built.


http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Cover/index

[Kali]

1. read that last night.

heh heh Did you know you can read the Weekly on line Wednesday evening, before they come out on Thursday?

[Ptah]

2. They are usually out Wednesday evening at the Safeway.

:hi:

[Kali]

3. ...

:blush: (also I am out of town)