Donna Anderson

Donna grew up in a very tiny town in eastern Oregon. Her family of six was barely middle-class. At the age of fourteen she had her first job washing dishes at a local restaurant. She hung up her apron at that job to work for the favorite burger joint in town. She was a waitress and a cook there while attending high school. Three weeks after graduation she married and moved to Indiana where her new husband was from. Together, they returned to Oregon with two boys in-tow, four years later. Two years went by, and Donna gave birth to her final child, a girl. Over the years Donna held jobs to help make ends meet. She was a waitress, upholster, cake decorator, pari-mutuel teller (took bets for the horses and dog races), bank teller, general ledger clerk, bookkeeper for her husband’s business, detailed cars, and her last job was working with students in the Special Education department of the local high school. Donna was always involved in her children’s sporting endeavors. She served on the Little League Board and was also in charge of concessions. Soccer started in grade school and lasted through high school, baseball and softball, basketball, and cheerleading. She was always on the go from one field to the next. Her favorite job was working with the kids in Special Education. She was elected to the City Council where she lives today in Oregon. After twenty-two years of marriage, it came to an end. She was single for four years then she met the Chief of Police and fell in love. He had seven children, five were grown and on their own, but he had eleven-year-old twins still at home. His wife had passed away, so he was a single dad. Donna loved them as if they were her own. They spent eleven happy years together before he passed away. To fill her time, she decided to write a book. It was one thing she had always wanted to do. She did not take any classes on writing, but she thought she would give it a try. It took her quite a while to decide what to write about. She remembered someone had said, ‘write about what you know.’ Midnight Memory Lane is what she knew. Many of the experiences in this trilogy are real. Some are fiction. Donna still lives in Oregon fifteen miles away from her hometown in eastern Oregon. She has fourteen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.