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Sandy Tippett-Smith
About the Author
Sandy is a retired Special Education and English teacher working with pre-school through high school. She and her husband live in Western Colorado along the Colorado River valleys ...view moreAbout the Author
Sandy is a retired Special Education and English teacher working with pre-school through high school. She and her husband live in Western Colorado along the Colorado River valleys and canyons. They are both avid gardeners and watchers of nature be it weather patterns, bird migrations, or the various growth patterns of their many plants they tend organically.
Returning to college as an older adult she was inspired by the children that she both worked with as a private school business manager, but as a blossoming writer that saw the innocence and curiosity that childhood holds for us all. First achieving her bachelors in English Secondary Education and then a Masters in Affective Special Education initiated a 15 year journey into the emotional needs of the students as well as working with both Mental Health and Human Services.
Along this journey she has been a daily journal writer and on occasion felt as though there was a story she was supposed to write sometime, someday. Only after years of bookkeeping, raising children, and being a teacher has she finally found her story unfolding in retirement.
About the Illustrator
Tara Tippett
Tara Tippett, is a Freelance Artist inspired to create Illustrations (book or other), Portraits, Murals, and concept Art.
She enjoys working with people to help them shape their artistic endeavors including books, logo and web design, murals,
and sculpture comes naturally to her.
She has worked in various mediums, anywhere from bones and leather to oil paints, metal, and clay. Currently working
in a digital medium of Photoshop and Corel painting, and playing around with animation.
Tara’s diverse background of self-studies, internships and degrees all assist her as a passionate Illustrator, muralist
,designer, as well as an educator and motivator. She has worked with multiple “At Risk” youth empowerment programs, and
community building programs both in collegial and grassroots settings. Tara has also sold art in Artist Alley at Denver’s,
fi rst Comic Con and has also sold and showed her art in local Sci-Fi and Fantasy Cons in the Colorado area. Currently
running a small Graphic Design entrepreneurship, she provides a creative variety of business advertising design. (http://
taraseren.wix.com/shine)
A lover of wildlife, children, plants, exploring, history, culture, as well as storytelling, she always has a stash of folkloric
and modern tales. Stories which help people identify and relate to plants, wildlife, survival, astronomy, mythology, and
human relationship to nature and their living history.
Tara is no stranger to having an active and full life. Having worked in various construction trades, including
landscaping, Archeology Digs, and enjoyed lots of travel early in her life. She enjoys the outdoors and pockets of wilderness
that she can access in any city. Tara engages in self-studies such as Art/Astronomy, Astrology, Cultural and Traditional
Medicinal Practices, Shamanism, Plants as Medicine, Gardening, Wilderness Survival, Wildlife, Folklore, Dream analysis,
Archaeology, Anthropology, Environmental and Self Sustainable ideas and education.view less