Davis, Betty - Writer
At age eleven, I took X for my middle name since my parents were satisfied with just “Betty Test.” I also wished for three things: that I would marry a lawyer, have eight children, become a movie star. Well, two out of three isn’t bad. (Don’t confuse names to guess which one I missed). None of the wishes had come true by the time I graduated from Rollins College, so I decided to become a Religious Education Director in an Episcopal Church. Well, that wish also came true – forty years later. Always, along my crowded path of life I wrote: letters, contests entries (won a couple), plays (produced, never published), a curriculum book for speech therapists (published in 1987). After two Master’s Degrees from SMU and when last chick was in school, I became a public school speech therapist in Richardson, Texas. My husband and I retired to Austin in 1981.
One wish never contemplated at age eleven, or twenty-one or forty-one, was that I would retire to enjoy tennis, good health, the treasure of children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, sixty-five years of marriage, and – of course – an abiding love of writing.