Doris Fleming

Doris Fleming...a farm girl through and through. As a child, while her friends were playing Barbies, Doris was milking cows,stirring slop for the pigs, and playing pretend with her sister (mixing up mud soup and prettying up am empty granary for summer play). When teenage peers were stepping pretty in their spiked heels and fancy dresses, she was walking the lane in her bare feet (muddy or dry), fetching cows. Raised in western Canada's beautiful wild rose province (Alberta), Doris grew up plucking feathers, pitching hay, roofing barns, etc. Everything from pulling weeds to mucking out manure has provided the inspiration for her first novel, Seeds in the Wind. She started off her educational years in a one-room classroom and didn't learn to read until second grade, but she doesn't mind. Through her writing Doris revisits (by way of her characters) the delights and the difficulties of those chore-drenched days. She and her husband (Art) have four grown children, nine grandchildren, and reside in Wallace, Idaho.