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Joan Merriam

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As you can see from my photo, I love dogs.

Golden Retrievers especially.

The dog in the photo is Joey, who I adopted in 2015 from Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue. He's my 4th rescue golden, and a registered therapy dog.

I'm a 3rd-generation Californian, and live in the low mountains of the Sierra Nevada in the northern part of the state. In addition to dogs, one of my great loves is gardening; I also Communication Studies at a California community college.

As a writer, I'm the author of two books in the Tess Alexander Mystery series: A Just Reckoning , published in February of 2021, and A Cruel Oblivion , published in November of 2021.

I also authored a full-length nonfiction book, Little Girl Lost: A True Story of Shattered Innoce
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In the Beginning...

No, not in the beginning of the world or the universe or the Great Beyond...in the beginning of ME.

Joan Merriam.

Joan Merriam the author, the teacher, the Golden Retriever-lover, the gardener, the forest-dweller, the builder, the former business owner and nonprofit director and saleswoman and real estate appraiser...oh, yeah, I could go on and on.

In my lifetime, I think I've been just about every Read more of this blog post »
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Published on June 17, 2021 16:52 Tags: dogs, reading, writing
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