Barb Patton

Barb Patton retired early from a corporate management position in Chicago, Illinois and moved to Florida. She wrote and published her first non-fiction book “Warm Tears and Cold Rutabaga Don’t Mix or Ma Was It Me or You?”  based on her childhood growing up in Michigan.  She served as a volunteer Guardian ad Litem for children who had been placed in foster care homes and as a Mentor for problem children in a local grade school. She began writing short stories and poems for children to help them address problems they were dealing with.  Roy and Jessica is just one of many them.