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Rae Ellen Lee

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Rae Ellen Lee grew up on a stump ranch in northern Idaho. She worked for the U.S. State Dept. in Washington, D.C., Switzerland, and (then) Yugoslavia before attending the Univ. of Idaho, where she earned a degree in Landscape Architecture. Employment with the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho and Montana followed, until 1997, when she resigned and moved to a sailboat, The Shoe, with new husband, Tom. She wrote about that experience, in I ONLY CUSS WHEN I'M SAILING, first published in 2001 as If The Shoe Fits by Sheridan House).

Her first novel, THE BLUEBIRD HOUSE, first published by Five Star in 2002, is a paranormal, historical, romance-adventure romp with a mystery and some mountain man recipes, set in and around that old Montana mining camp br Rae Ellen Lee grew up on a stump ranch in northern Idaho. She worked for the U.S. State Dept. in Washington, D.C., Switzerland, and (then) Yugoslavia before attending the Univ. of Idaho, where she earned a degree in Landscape Architecture. Employment with the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho and Montana followed, until 1997, when she resigned and moved to a sailboat, The Shoe, with new husband, Tom. She wrote about that experience, in I ONLY CUSS WHEN I'M SAILING, first published in 2001 as If The Shoe Fits by Sheridan House).

Her first novel, THE BLUEBIRD HOUSE, first published by Five Star in 2002, is a paranormal, historical, romance-adventure romp with a mystery and some mountain man recipes, set in and around that old Montana mining camp brothel she lived in and renovated. This book was a readers’ choice selection of Salt Lake Public Library patrons.

Her second memoir, published in 2012, is set on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. In MY NEXT HUSBAND WILL BE NORMAL – A St. John Adventure (indie published in early 2012), Rae Ellen shares the funny side of events when, soon after unpacking their flip-flops, Tom realizes he is really a she. Told with a generous heart and a tragicomic style, you’ll find added heat from a cast of colorful cats, customers, and Caribbean personalities. Toss in a few sex toys, some steel pan music, a pinch of voodoo. . . and stir.

She has also published POWDER MONKEY TALES - A Portrait in Stories, by Wesley Moore alias Post Hole Augerson, a geezer of some renown in northern Idaho. A farm boy from Illinois who headed west in 1941, Wes became a woods worker and powder monkey, which means he used dynamite to help build roads for the logging industry in the 1940s and 1950s. This booklet captures the history and humor of her father, as told to her. One story was performed in the Idaho Centennial Play, IDAHO TALES, TALL AND TRUE, in 1989.

Rae Ellen is currently writing a novel set in 1999 about the lives of a few good women working in a north woods sawmill A geezer enthusiast, she is also working on a guidebook to geezer species.

Rae Ellen now lives and writes in Bellingham, WA, in the company of her porch doodle, Sudsie, and as often as possible, she hikes, bikes, and sketches with her Montana granddaughter, Madison.
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Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

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	My Next Husband Will Be Normal 3.81 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bluebird House 3.92 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Only Cuss When I'm Sailing 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cheating the Hog. A Sawmill. A Tragedy. A Few Gutsy Women 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If the Shoe Fits: The Adventures of a Reluctant Boatfrau 3.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Field Guide to Geezers: An Illustrated Look at a Curious Branch of Hominids by Rae Ellen Lee (Goodreads Author), John A. Alley (Illustrations) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Recipe For Love: A Semi-Erotic Slice of Flash Fiction 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE STUMP RANCH CHRONICLES: A 1950s Country Childhood In the Idaho Panhandle really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I plan on growing old much later in life, or maybe not at all.”
― Patty Carey, Rodeo Rider, 1913

tags: inspirational-humor

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“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: grief, loss, recovery

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“I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money.”
― Graham Parke, Unspent Time

tags: humor, philosophy, weird

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“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
― Fred Rogers

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