– After that, my confidence in strangers diminished.

The bicycle delivered me to-and-fro until the weather changed, and the snowy, windy, 6-month Lake Erie winter arrived.

Barbara Mueller is a retired IT project manager living in Asheville, North Carolina. Her initial volunteer experience in Asheville was as a docent at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, where she met many visitors interested in storytelling. She enjoys gardening, reading, dancing, and playing the mountain dulcimer. This is her first venture into creative non-fiction.