Dr. Branton K. Holmberg

I was a medic in the Air Force in the late 1950s and left when my enlistment ended to go to college on the GI Bill. I married my wife Margaret, an RN, in 1960 and we have 2 sons and a daughter. I earned a Master's degree (MA) in School Psychology at Central Washington State College in 1964 and was hired as an Instructor in Psychology at Pacific Lutheran College that same year. I finished my doctoral degree in education (Ed.D) at the University of Idaho in 1971 and was hired as an Associate Professor of Psychology at Central Washington State College. My wife and I purchased a nursing home in 1978 and were both involved in running it. I became a business consultant and taught part-time at several universities over the years as an Adjunct Professor. I became a college Dean after we sold our nursing home. Due to illnesses of my father, brother, mother and sister-in-law I became the caregiver of them for several years. In 2000 I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and believed it had been surgically removed that year. I was cancer free until 2010 when it returned and spread to my larynx and trachea. I became a laryngectomee in August, 2010. As a result of the loss of my voice I began writing young adult, and adult, fiction and a memoir as a means of staying connected with the world. My writing became my salvation and I immersed myself in it. It's brought me greater satisfaction than I ever dreamed possible. I've created a website www.brantonholmbergbooks.com to showcase my books. I hope you'll let me enter your imagination with my fiction creations, or your heart with my memoir.