ABOUT LOREDA MILLER
ABOUT LOREDA MILLER
Loreda Miller grew up in Nebraska where her vivid imagination was encouraged by her family. She would request a board and some nails, a blanket and clothes pins, or clay and tempera paint, and her parents would indulge her. She played dress up and
danced to the music of Lawrence Welk’s television music show. She pretended to be the pioneer wagon-train boss with neighbor kids in (covered) red wagons on an empty neighborhood lot. She played school and designed her own “Think And Do” workbooks. She put on circus acts (including trampoline stunts) with her sister in the back yard, charging neighborhood friends 5 cents to watch. When her parents would go out for the evening, she and her sister joined her female cousins at their grandma’s
and grandpa’s house to spend the night. Her grandmother told endless make-believe stories. All the cousins in the family would listen to the stories and later act them out.
Ms. Miller worked in public education and grew with her career from science teacher to assistant principal, then principal, and finally retiring as a school district superintendent. Her favorite moments were spent reading stories to elementary students. For her, a book was never over when she read the last page. She enhanced every story with the students’ application of something from the book. Once, she read aloud a book that mentioned a Conga line. Ms. Miller had first graders dancing in a Conga line after that story.
Ms. Miller carried out the tradition and told stories to her grandchildren. Whenever they got together, the grandchildren demanded, “Grandma, tell us a story about …!” They chose to hear stories about their dad as a child, public school incidents, their births, how they were potty trained, and grandma’s favorite make-believe. She happily obliged their demands. (No names were used in the public school incident stories!)
Now that Ms. Miller’s grandchildren have grown and gone their own ways to careers and families, she has relocated to Arizona. Happy to be in the sunny desert, she hikes, bicycles, swims, hits the gym, reads, and writes, not necessarily in that order. She hopes her current stories have messages to help her readers become better people.
Loreda Miller grew up in Nebraska where her vivid imagination was encouraged by her family. She would request a board and some nails, a blanket and clothes pins, or clay and tempera paint, and her parents would indulge her. She played dress up and
danced to the music of Lawrence Welk’s television music show. She pretended to be the pioneer wagon-train boss with neighbor kids in (covered) red wagons on an empty neighborhood lot. She played school and designed her own “Think And Do” workbooks. She put on circus acts (including trampoline stunts) with her sister in the back yard, charging neighborhood friends 5 cents to watch. When her parents would go out for the evening, she and her sister joined her female cousins at their grandma’s
and grandpa’s house to spend the night. Her grandmother told endless make-believe stories. All the cousins in the family would listen to the stories and later act them out.
Ms. Miller worked in public education and grew with her career from science teacher to assistant principal, then principal, and finally retiring as a school district superintendent. Her favorite moments were spent reading stories to elementary students. For her, a book was never over when she read the last page. She enhanced every story with the students’ application of something from the book. Once, she read aloud a book that mentioned a Conga line. Ms. Miller had first graders dancing in a Conga line after that story.
Ms. Miller carried out the tradition and told stories to her grandchildren. Whenever they got together, the grandchildren demanded, “Grandma, tell us a story about …!” They chose to hear stories about their dad as a child, public school incidents, their births, how they were potty trained, and grandma’s favorite make-believe. She happily obliged their demands. (No names were used in the public school incident stories!)
Now that Ms. Miller’s grandchildren have grown and gone their own ways to careers and families, she has relocated to Arizona. Happy to be in the sunny desert, she hikes, bicycles, swims, hits the gym, reads, and writes, not necessarily in that order. She hopes her current stories have messages to help her readers become better people.
