Life is Sweet

Life is Sweet

A Year of Memories, Monday Memories, Real life characters

I adored my Grandmother Stephens-Fitzsimons. My first memories with her were at The Pike, an amusement park in Long Beach, California. We’d get on the bus and head down to the ocean for a day of fun rides, a picnic on the beach, and for me, enjoyable moments...
Will O’Shaughnessy

Will O’Shaughnessy

Real life characters

Will O’Shaughnessy, the central character in my first two O’Shaughnessy Chronicle books, Giddyap Tin Lizzie and Bittersweet Harvest, was inspired by my grandfather, Will Fitzsimons. I learned most about Grandfather Fitzsimons from my mother, Laura Annette Fitzsimons,...
Catherine O’Shaughnessy

Catherine O’Shaughnessy

Real life characters

My four books present the O’Shaughnessy family story, a life progression similar to what many families experienced during those difficult 20th century years. Families struggled to overcome obstacles that most people living today can only know through reading books. I...
Sharon O’Shaughnessy

Sharon O’Shaughnessy

Real life characters

“Sharon, almost fourteen, looked like her father: short and, as he liked to say, pleasingly plump. But her disposition wasn’t his at all. Like her Cornish ancestors, she was serious, and like her Cornish mother, practical.” — Giddyap Tin Lizzie   In the...
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