The Journey (ePub)

               Vicki Stirm lives in a small town in north central Indiana.  She is married and shares a house with a husband, two teenage boys and a cat.

               She has a degree in Forestry (majoring in Forest Management) and works in the Horticulture Department at Purdue University.  She was a research technician for many years and now works as a lab instructor and organizer for an introductory horticulture course.

               Vicki loves to sing and is in two groups at her church.  Reading is also a big passion of hers and has been since she was in first grade.

   She liked history some when she was young, but didn’t like history in high school!  She became more interested in it when a former friend introduced her to a re-enacting festival, The Feast of the Hunter’s Moon. She eventually became more interested in history around her.  It became more exciting to her when she thought about the lives of people who lived in the past, not just names and dates of events.

               She became more involved in re-enacting when her older son (at age 8 ½) began to play the bagpipes in the 42nd Royal Highlanders of Lafayette, Indiana, an 18th century re-enactment band.  They have traveled all over the Midwest and some out east. She is also a member of the board of directors for the organization.

               This novel is her first and she is already working on another.