About Me

 

 

Hi I’m Linda.  Linda Martin Andersen.  I wear a jester’s hat on my blog.  Would you like to guess why?  Leave me your best guess on the comments below and I’ll let you know if you’re right. 

I am married and have two grown sons and two grandsons.  I live way off the highway and down a dirt driveway.  Although I live in the country, we do not have any cows or goats.   I do live on a farm, but not that kind.  It is a tree farm that is planted in pine trees.   Before I started school, my grandmother used to raise cows and I was scared of them.  If my father wanted to get me to come on to the house and I was lingering, he would call mooo.  I’d come running.

Today, I can be seen hanging out with cows–artsy ones anyway.  See here:

Meet A. Cow, an exhibit for the Cow Parade, a charity event for children’s hospitals. Photo– Fayetteville, NC, home of the Airborne. Copyright 2012 Linda Andersen.

When I was young like you, I used to play jump rope and jacks.  I could walk a barrel, but I never was very good at roller skating.  I liked to tell my mom all about my day—all about it.  I went on and on.

I have worked in several different jobs.  I even drove a school bus.  Mostly, I have been a teacher and a school counselor.  I also worked at the public library.  Now, I am an elementary school reading tutor.  Every minute that I can, I write for children.  It is the best job ever.  I write picture books, fiction and nonfiction stories and articles, teacher guides, and curriculum.  I love to go to writers’ conferences where I learn more about writing and I get to meet authors and illustrators.  To me, it’s better than meeting movie stars.

 I like to read blogs written by writers and illustrators.  Now, I am a blogger too.  I also enjoy spending time in the mountains of North Carolina, being outdoors, and of course reading and writing.