About the Author Terri L. Turner

I retired from community service and a 30+ year career as a planner and floodplain manager in 2022. That began the next chapter of my life—literally living out all of my fondest dreams. Life was a grand adventure, and I soaked it all up, experiencing so many "firsts" with family and dear friends that I often had to pinch myself as a reminder that it was all quite real. There was certainly great joy to be found in the world.

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After my daughter and granddaughter moved to Texas in the summer of 2024, I moved from the area I had always called home to a cozy cabin in the middle of the woods in the ultra-quiet mountains of Northeast Georgia. Naturally, a whole new realm of firsts emerged on my to-do list.  

But my heart was always drawn to my greatest love, my son and daughter, their awesome spouses, and my precious grandchildren. As badly as I wanted to, I could never spend enough time with them. They lived hundreds of miles away from me and had the quite normal obligations of jobs, school, church, sports, extracurriculars and day-to-day routines of young families everywhere. I left a piece of my heart with them each time I came home from a visit.

Somewhere in the midst of it all, God reminded me that there was a creative love inside of me waiting to be shared, not only with my family, but with friends and those I had not even met yet.  

Writing children's books became a new first, combining my love of the written word, my education background and my passion for all things environmental into one brightly colored whimsical package of sheer fun—with a little learning mixed in for good measure.

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My children's books are also a way that I can be with my grandchildren as they fall asleep at night.  I'm a firm believer that bedtime stories are the best stories that can ever be told.

I hope you enjoy reading my works-of-love, as much as I enjoyed creating them! 

Always dare to dream, my friends, because dreams can and will become a reality if you just give them breath!