About the author
Ruth Calia Stives is a native of New Jersey, who now resides in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. She studied communications , photography, and journalism in college, graduating with a degree in media studies. Her "career" has been anything but a straight path, zig-zagging from secretarial duties to customer service representation, to medical transcription in a hospital pathology lab, to newspaper staff writing. Along the way she also devoted a portion of her life to being a stay-at-home mom to a now-adult son. Creative writing has always been the continuous thread ; a compulsion to describe people and events in ways that spark the imagination. All the "what if"s and "just suppose"s provide endless ideas for fictional exploration. And, whatever the prevailing mood, writing is a grounding force, a way to keep the mind in forward motion and to communicate ideas to the world.