Welcome
Hello! My name is Kathy L.Fawcett. I was born the baby in the family on May 9th, 1959, in Massachusetts and lived there until I was eleven years old. My family and I then moved to New Hampshire. I have lived there since. In 1978 I graduated from high school.
I have two grown children, Jennifer and Raymond. I have one grandson , Dylan and two granddaughter,LiLi & Kitty. I have one grandchild due in Jan, which will be my sons second child. We are looking forward to that special event in our life.
I have spent twenty years in school systems teaching special needs children. This has always been a rewarding job. I get a lot of enjoyment seeing the smiles on their faces every day. I know how they must feel; because I too, was born with disabilities. At my birth I was deaf and had a stuttering problem, along with suffering with epilepsy. I feel the reason why I decided to work in this field is because I can relate to others who have disabilities.
When I was a child, I was always having trouble with my speech and the ability to express myself because I could never get the words out. I spent a lot of time writing, drawing, and always had a great imagination. Sometimes, I would spend hours on end playing alone. Today, I have over comes many of my disabilities. Writing has always helped me with my feelings, especially when I am upset. Writing takes me away from my every day life.
I enjoy what life has to bring each day. I love the outdoors, reading, and, of course, my writings. I also enjoy freelance art, crafts, painting on wood, and many other things. I take friendships seriously and hold them dear to my heart. My mother always said, "Some friendships will come and go but your true friends will last a life time!" That is so very true.
I write differently from many other writers. I write with feelings. My writing is different; it is hard to explain. Authors, I believe, have their own style. I still don't consider my self an author, though I am merely a person with a heart and soul.
I have written four books, but my first book, titled, "In the Eyes of a Grieving Daughter", is in the process of being published by Publish America. "In The Eyes of a Grieving Daughter,” took me a year to write. I started writing it on August 23, 2004 -the night my mother was killed in a serious auto accident. Upon learning of her death, I came home and sat down at my computer. I was in shock; my emotions were all strung out. I gathered my thoughts, and each day after I began to write what I felt and thought, about the accident.
During all this time I wanted to do something because I felt my mother's death was meaningless. She was a person that would give it her all. She impacted love to so many lives while here on earth. If you only knew her you would know what I mean. She didn't care about the color of a person's skin only that their heart and souls were in the right place. She raised all of us kids to believe in ourselves; to be honest and true-no matter what life had to bring. I have tried to live each day with those beliefs. My mother always held me when I hurt or when things weren't going right. On the night she was killed, she was not there to hold me or wipe away my tears, yet I knew my mother was trying to still hold me and catch my tears from the stairways in Heaven. My faith in God above has kept me from falling off the edge.
On the one-year anniversary date of her death, I decided to send my manuscript to several publishers. I received five offers for the book, yet could only choose one. I felt that if I could help just one person who may have gone through the same traumatic experiences as I have, it would make a difference in why she died. My mother always said," Kathy, everything happens for a reason and that only God knows!'' I didn't understand what the reasons were when she was killed, yet if my writing impacts someone's life, perhaps that is what she meant.
Deep in my heart I knew, the book was not enough. I was driven on a mission deep in my soul; I needed more. There has to be something good that comes out of all this! I thought. In order for something positive to come out of all this, I wanted to give back what my mother had given to the world. I decided that I should take all the royalties from the book and do something good with it to keep my mother's memory alive! My mother played and sang country music. Back in her day, she even sang and yodeled on public radio. She had a voice of an angel. Even at 77 years old, just months before she died, she took out her guitar and sat down on the couch and sang, "Old Rugged Cross," to her great grandson. She was also a strong believer in education and loved children.
With the royalties, I have chosen to start a fund in my mother's memory. This fund would help a high school student pursue his or her dream of going to college to study music. This scholarship will be given each year, if possible, to someone in a New Hampshire school. I believe it will help someone's life to help better our tomorrow, and hopefully the book will also touch someone's life. It will be a special day and a dream fulfilled for me when I can walk up on graduation day and present a check to a special child, and know my mother might be proud and smiling down from heaven above.
God Bless! Kathy
