Diane DeVillers

I grew up in Wisconsin during the seventies when women were coming of age with feminism and the emergence of the counterculture generation was gathering force. Both movements changed the face of America forever. I was passionately independent, and came to know my own mind.

I lived on a farm in central WI where we raised our own food, milked goats,and had honey hives. I married my high school sweetheart and I thought he would be together forever. We answered an ad in "The Mother Earth News" for tree planters down in Mississippi, Alabama,and Tennessee. I was the camp cook and the "town runner for supplies" for a group of tree plants that moved from forest to forest planting pines in clear cut forests.

I split up with my husband and headed West to work as a forester in the Wallow Mountains of eastern Oregon. I worked in some of the most remote wilderness areas in Oregon doing timber inventory and living in my tent. I came to appreciate what was left of old growth timber and why we need to save it.

I settled down many years later in the hippie town of Eugene Oregon where artists and the University of Oregon students make for a progressive, mixture of talented people. I bought a house on Moon Mountain and tend well nourished gardens.

I worked twenty years in service to people with disabilities and then ironically was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. I had to retire. I found my journals from the past up in a closet and wrote three fictionalized memoirs.

I have been with a wonderful, caring man for twenty years; who brought music back into my life We live a good life, being life mates and nothing more.