That's me, the handsome guy in the grainy picture. I was born in Seattle, Washington, and lived there until my mother recovered enough to move us home to Renton, ten miles south.

     

Forty-seven years later, my blushing bride and I moved across the state to Spokane. In 2022, we moved to our dream home in a tiny town two hours north of Spokane called Metaline. It was our seventh move in 20 years, and we are never moving again, at least not until our kids forcibly drag us into an old folk's home. Then THEY will have to do all the moving.

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Shegrud, by the way, is a Norwegian name pronounced 'shag' as in carpet, and 'rude' as in not very polite, emphasis on the carpet. SHAG-rude. Piece of cake, right?

   

Here are a few additional and ridiculously compelling details about me:

 

-I love Jesus!

-My novels are not Christian novels, but they are Christ-honoring

That means I write about real people, with all their flaws and foibles,

without resorting to obscenities or unnecessary graphic details

- I have five sons, one daughter, and 8 grandkids (so far)

- I love to fish, even though I totally suck at it

- My boat's name is The Big Bobber, but I call him Bob for short

- I love cookies! They are the perfect food!

- I consider macaroni-and-cheese its own food group

- I love eating and I love cooking

-but mostly I love eating other people's cooking

- I drove truck for 22 years, then switched to the nursing field

It's messier than driving, but more satisfying at the end of the day

-I am now pretending to be retired

-drive a community shuttle bus part-time

-chop a lot of wood to heat our home

-and squeeze in my writing whenever I can 

 

    Blessings,

Daniel W. Shegrud

 

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