Meet The Author And Her Family
"This Is My Life"

Hi there. I'm Ellen, the proud creator and author of "Autumn's Child's Forest Flights".
Why "Autumn" ? Perhaps because I was born in the Autumn of 1960 on October 27th,
to be exact.  Or maybe because I can't imagine anything more beautiful than a sunny
Autumn afternoon in the forest, with the wind russling through the leaves while a thick
soft carpet of brown, orange and red dampens the sound of my footsteps as I gaze at
the bountiless wonders of nature and try to take in as much of it's beauty as possible.
It is between the trees in the "forest" that I can leave all my worries and frustrations
behind, feeling as carefree as a child again and as happy as anyone deserves to be....;
my "flight" from reality, like my poems -and those of others- often are to me as well.
The bilingual part of this site stems from the fact that I was born in The Netherlands,
more popularly known as Holland, Europe. Due to my late father's profession as a pilot,
I travelled extensively and even lived in the U.S.A. for six year where English grew to
become my "mother tongue" with Dutch as a close "runner up".  My pionering days ended
back in The Netherlands where I married in 1979 and was blessed with 4 handsome sons!

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.....Sander (17)..........Rogier (15)............Marnix (8).............Yorick (4)......

Here are my sons with their father (Rob, 42) after the summer holidays 1998:

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