Barbara was born in Madera, California, and grew up in San Bernardino, CA. She has always loved to read. Her favorite books were about animals. Barbara spent every spare moment she could reading. S...view moreBarbara was born in Madera, California, and grew up in San Bernardino, CA. She has always loved to read. Her favorite books were about animals. Barbara spent every spare moment she could reading. She began by writing poems just for pleasure, although she does have a poem in the Poets Guild. From there she began writing songs. She has (four) albums recorded, Country and Southern Gospel. Barbara started writing books in 2001. She was sitting out by a field watching some prairie dogs. Words started coming and she began writing them down. That is how the Meadow Series came to be. It took a few summers to complete the series and start getting the books published. Barbara has other books written and will be getting them published soon. She also has others she is in the process of writing. She hopes you will enjoy all of them.view less