Jerusha rockin' it a la peacock at Houston Pride 2015 My fabulous daughter, Jerusha Rodgers , spent the better part of two years traveling the world with nothing but her own ingenuity, a genuine desire to live in a yurt, and an income cobbled together from freelance editing and online essay grading. My amazing dad, Del Lonnquist , scaled tall buildings and toured with a rock band in his youth. More recently, he cared for my mom as she was dying of Alzheimer's and then took to the road on his motorcycle-sidecar rig. He's since ridden tens of thousands of miles and, at age 80, earned his Iron Butt certification as one of the World's Toughest Riders. And then there's me. Hate to toot my own horn, but I will claim for myself that I discovered the absolutely WORST Way to Become an Almost Famous Author . In addition to the gene pool and our love for lefse , all three of us share a flare for the arts, an insatiable curiosity about what lies around the next bend,...
on the many-tentacled business of books