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\"Marilyn<\/a>Marilyn Brandt Smith blossomed amid the blue bonnets and mesquites in south Texas. Her heroes are her parents who taught school, coached basketball, ran a ranch in their spare time, and most of all, believed in her.<\/p>\n

She reached for the educational hoops that qualified her to teach, counsel, and direct rehabilitation programs from Texas to the nation’s capital and out to the Rockies. There was a stint with the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic, and a summer exploring Europe along the way. Blindness threatened some road blocks, but her determination and resourcefulness won out.<\/p>\n

Her Texas roots now flourish in Kentucky soil. She’s part of a large extended family, and has opened her hundred-year-old home to critters as small as pinky mice, bred for the large boas and pythons her family bred and sold for a decade. Social networking and conferencing as well as old-fashioned letter writing and taping keep her in touch with fellow writers and friends she’s known since she was six.<\/p>\n

Marilyn has written and edited for small-niche publications since college. She points with editorial pride to “Behind Our Eyes<\/a>: Stories, Poems, and Essays by Writers with Disabilities” (published 2007) and Magnets and Ladders<\/a>, an online magazine which showcases strong, creative literary work.<\/p>\n

Lavender, leather, roses, and cedar make her smile. Water exercises and soaks keep her strong and sane. Family favorites like chicken and dumplings and peach cobbler will one day find themselves in a published collection of her specialties.<\/p>\n

Marilyn reads and writes about what makes her curious: drama that doesn’t play out as expected; history that seems to have changed people’s lives overnight; future technology or tragedy from all perspectives; and the storms and strategies in the lives of people who need a leg up on life.<\/p>\n

Her book, “Chasing the Green Sun,” is a collection of plots, realities, and rhythms in a calendar format. Human interest, surprise endings, and thought provokers abound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marilyn Brandt Smith blossomed amid the blue bonnets and mesquites in south Texas. Her heroes are her parents who taught school, coached basketball, ran a ranch in their spare time, and most of all, believed in her. She reached for the educational hoops that qualified her to teach, counsel, and direct rehabilitation programs from Texas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marilynspages.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marilynspages.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marilynspages.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marilynspages.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marilynspages.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marilynspages.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.marilynspages.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marilynspages.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}