Linda Shepard is an award-winning writer for C & G Newspapers, Michigan Meetings Magazine and the Oakland Press Newspaper. Linda is an avid world traveler and enjoys cooking, gardening, reading, the needle arts and visiting her grandsons Will and Hugh, who live in Seattle. She served as production assistant on the television series "Above and Beyond with Mort Crim" and worked on research and development for the documentary "Flight Plan to Adventure." Linda has a degree in journalism from Oakland University and lives in rural Michigan.