Sherlock
Johnson, Tracy

TRACY: Well, I was sort of coerced into sort of talking about my life and remembrances of when I first read a book and I tried and tried and tried. I think I was read to from the day one of my life. I can't remember the first time I was read to, it was my mother most likely. What I remember most about my mother in the real is the fact that she always read. She had a relationship with my aunt in another state, we lived in Michigan, my aunt was in Pennsylvania and they would have book discussions, they would both read the same book and they would have book discussions. When really remember that I first started reading seriously is my mother got me started with Nancy Drew and that was a lot of fun for a few years and then I needed to progress so I think the next thing I really became involved with is Sherlock Holmes and I had the complete words of Sherlock Holmes, it belonged to my mother but I found it. That was another thing that was always present in our house was books all over the place. Had a real big bookshelf. So I had a library at home that I could choose from. Then I started wondering about writing and I am currently a technical writer; I write training for the campus. I first became really excited about technical writing when I took my first course about fifteen years ago in technical writing at the end of graduate level and our final was putting together a toy, a little wooden toy, we were just given the pieces, no instructions, nothing, and we were to write instructions and I received an A mainly because I did start out my instructions with spreading out newspaper and using Elmer's Glue and not airplane glue. Whereas other members of the class were using those items without any newspaper protecting mother's table top. I forgot to tell you that our audience was ten year old boys. So those were important items to take into consideration. But I've continued that endeavor and enjoy technical writing and have enjoyed talking with you and sharing my experiences and I'm ready for this to go to the next person.