Jeane Candido on... Jeane Candido!

I am a survivor of eighteen years of Catholic schools--with nuns of the Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Woe Unto You. I have been married nearly thirty-four years to a first-generation Italian from the South Bronx and have served a combined sentence of sixty-two years of motherhood. I found out that the engineering gene is the shark in the gene pool eating up all the recessive liberal arts genes.
Consequently I birthed two more engineers. My daughter, a mechanical engineer, married a civil engineer. My son is also an engineer and aviator. I am the only right-brained person in my family and therefore, the only one in her right mind. That feeling has been debated by the other members of my family, but I am holding fast to it.
But support is on the horizon, my son is marrying a Presbyterian minister who has studied grief counseling and can extend her compassion to consoling gardeners traumatized by blight, rabbit devastation, and freeze.

I have written two novels of the American Civil War with characters who live and breathe their days in the caldron rather than allow themselves to be confined to academic footnotes. These books are "The Redemption of Corporal Nolan Giles" and "Shepherd's Song." I also have written a children's book "Levi: The Smartest Boy in the World."