Life of Rileigh
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When most girls of sixteen were getting their driver licenses my mother was getting herself a baby.
As a child I spent a lot of time in an orphanage called the Margaret Lloyd StanselтАЩs ChildrenтАЩs Asylum. My mother preferred to call it a boarding school or summer camp depending upon the time of year I was visiting.
Most every child who lived there had a parent, a grandparent, an aunt, uncle, or some other family member тАУ somewhere or other. Including me. I donтАЩt blame my mother though тАУ she had herself a hard-knock life, too.
Let me explain, when I was born in 1954, things were different. Unwed mothers were treated in a spiteful manner тАУ including being excluded from social settings, and even family circles. I guess I should count my blessings that my mother tried her best to raise me.
IтАЩm sure my life is different from yours. There are not many orphanages operating today. Well, the long and the short of it is тАУ that this is my story тАУ about when things were a wee bit different.
My name is Rileigh Ophelia Horton, I think.
This was my life тАУ The Life of Rileigh
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L. L. Eadie is passionate about writing and reading тАУ especially for young adults. Before she was published her works earned her a couple Florida WritersтАЩ AssociationтАЩs Royal Palm Literary Awards. She credits her success not only for being an active member of both FWA and the Society of ChildrenтАЩs Book Writers and Illustrators, but also belonging to several critique groups over the past ten plus years sheтАЩs been writing.
She is a proud Gator graduate of the University of Florida тАУ holding a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education. She taught numerous years, grades, subjects, and children.
She is inspired daily and often nightly when her muse wakes her with a fabulous new idea or pressing story to be written.
