Author2Author with Marilyn Peterson Haus

Bill welcomes memoirist Marilyn Peterson Haus to the show. Marilyn learned to read and write in a one-room school set in the midst of a sea of corn and oats, and then rode a rickety yellow school bus seven miles to the nearest town (population 700) for middle and high school. Everything was oriented around the railroad that sliced through the tallgrass prairie, heading west. Marilyn’s own journey took her in the opposite direction, and after attending Augsburg College in Minneapolis, she and her husband moved east and settled in western Massachusetts, where she raised three children, earned an MBA and launched a successful business career. After retiring from her day job, Marilyn followed her dream to become a writer, began attending a weekly writer’s workshop, and over the course of ten years, wrote and completed HALF Of A WHOLE – her first book.  It was published just prior to her 80th birthday.