About the Author
M Dawn Dayton has always enjoyed being outdoors. Some have said she is independent and adventurous. When three of her four children were small, she organized a six-week road trip that went from Florida across the Southwest up thru California to Washington then home. It involved pulling a pop-up camper behind a van, camping all the way in National Parks and occasional private campgrounds or just the woods. That was her idea of a vacation. She camped with her children for a whole summer in Maine and another in the US Virgin Islands. While living in Florida and Tennessee the family frequently camped in the National forests and State Parks.
Her other great love is reading. While reading one book, she might have another stashed nearby, always making sure she has one available when she is finished with the current one. She reads a great variety of books some for entertainment, some for information and some to help her cope with life’s trials. Wherever she has lived she has been a patron of the local library and thinks of them as a big source of enrichment to her life.
Also, throughout her life she has been an unfulfilled writer. While working in the marketing department at a local HCA hospital authored a monthly newsletter and another for a Seniors’ organization the hospital sponsored. When humorous happenings of family life occurred, she put them in writing either in letters or just written for her own satisfaction. She has been told she is a good story teller, so after her brother produced a genealogy, she decided the family’s stories needed to be recorded along with it. So after living nearly a century of life, she produced “Roughing It” wanting it to be an account of a very special childhood, rich with love and heartwarming, humorous experiences.
Now she swims regularly for relief from painful arthritis at a local community pool. She has found that she can help older people, who are fearful of swimming or have never learned, and can get them to swim. People approach her at a local Community center and request a swimming lesson.
She now lives outside Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband who is ninety-five years old, who was a NASA engineer, and only a domestic cat, nicknamed Kitty.
About the Author
M Dawn Dayton has always enjoyed being outdoors. Some have said she is independent and adventurous. When three of her four children were small, she organized a six-week road trip that went from Florida across the Southwest up thru California to Washington then home. It involved pulling a pop-up camper behind a van, camping all the way in National Parks and occasional private campgrounds or just the woods. That was her idea of a vacation. She camped with her children for a whole summer in Maine and another in the US Virgin Islands. While living in Florida and Tennessee the family frequently camped in the National forests and State Parks.
Her other great love is reading. While reading one book, she might have another stashed nearby, always making sure she has one available when she is finished with the current one. She reads a great variety of books some for entertainment, some for information and some to help her cope with life’s trials. Wherever she has lived she has been a patron of the local library and thinks of them as a big source of enrichment to her life.
Also, throughout her life she has been an unfulfilled writer. While working in the marketing department at a local HCA hospital authored a monthly newsletter and another for a Seniors’ organization the hospital sponsored. When humorous happenings of family life occurred, she put them in writing either in letters or just written for her own satisfaction. She has been told she is a good story teller, so after her brother produced a genealogy, she decided the family’s stories needed to be recorded along with it. So after living nearly a century of life, she produced “Roughing It” wanting it to be an account of a very special childhood, rich with love and heartwarming, humorous experiences.
Now she swims regularly for relief from painful arthritis at a local community pool. She has found that she can help older people, who are fearful of swimming or have never learned, and can get them to swim. People approach her at a local Community center and request a swimming lesson.
She now lives outside Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband who is ninety-five years old, who was a NASA engineer, and only a domestic cat, nicknamed Kitty.