Eunice Boeve
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Eunice Boeve

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My dad was a story-telling cowboy who died too soon—too soon to “maybe” get his book published about his life as a cowboy, and too soon to see his children grow up— seven of us— myself at five, the exact middle child. My mother was an avid reader, loved to sing, and had many poems in her memory bank. She too died too soon—still with children in their teens, myself just six days out of my teen years, the three behind me, now without a mother or even the memory of a father. Of the seven of us, only I became a writer, arriving as such in my middle years. I was in my thirties when a gem of that desire to write, that whisper, that nudge came to me fully formed one day while attending a funeral. As I sat there, a woman with a story came to life in my head. She lived there off and on for some months, and finally, with no encouragement from me she left. However, she left behind a seed with roots beginning to sprout, a seed I began to nurture slowly, hesitantly, fighting a belief, the result of a school counselor who gave me no hope beyond wife and motherhood. I no longer see his face, but I still know the words. Words, the tone of them shrinking me to the size he must have thought I deserved. I had no talent, he told me, although I did have an average IQ, but the tone of his voice even took that away, for I heard, “But a fat lot of good that’s going to do you.” But the woman knew better, and ever so slowly, the seed she left behind grew and eventually bloomed into my first book, titled Trapped! the true story of a girl with the Donner Party. That seed led me first to a correspondence course which resulted in several stories for children’s magazines, an article or two, a couple of short stories for adults and then Trapped! I guess one might say, I was trapped by then in the need to write, a need I had to satisfy. In the years since I’ve published nine more books, have written a few short stories, and for seven years, a yearly sixteen-chapter middle-grade story for a program called Newspapers in Education. My books have won awards: Among them, a Kansas Notable Book, A KART award, The Kansas author’s Coffin Award (twice), two have been listed as a Kansas Reading Circle book, and one was chosen by the then Kansas Governor to sign and send to a library damaged in Hurricane Katrina. Three of my short stories have placed first and second in various contests. All, thanks to that woman who planted the seed that led to whatever success I’ve obtained in writing. I finished writing what I thought was my last book, A Home in America, in 2017, as Ron, my dear husband of sixty-two years passed in January of 2018 and I was now eighty years old. But he stepped through this thin veil between us and immediately let us know he was still with us, and within a few months and many contacts later, convinced me I still had a book to write, a memoir this time. Titled This Thin Veil Between Us it is to be published by Koehler Books in October 2023. My blog can be accessed at https://roneun.wixsite.com/eunice-boeve/post/jumping-back-in
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