"Windmills and Fireflies: My Life as a Country Girl" is a collection of short stories of what it was like to grow up on the famly farm. Everyone, from young people to the young at heart, will enjoy the side-splitting antics of the Johnson family. Take a nostalgic walk down memory lane as Kay Johnson tells it the way it was--complete the swimming pond, evening chores, and the old white clapboard farm house.
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... my daughter, Alice, who is 10, promptly sat down and read your book and wrote a book report for school. -- Karen Evanson, New Rockford, ND
I ... read it within an hour. I can't tell you the flood of memories that came back to me. -- Jody Householder, Torrance, Calif.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading your book on my trip to Iowa last week. "Haying Time" was a hoot. -- Carol Gillen, Lakeville, MN
I ... read it within an hour. I can't tell you the flood of memories that came back to me. -- Jody Householder, Torrance, Calif.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading your book on my trip to Iowa last week. "Haying Time" was a hoot. -- Carol Gillen, Lakeville, MN
About the Author
Kay J. Johnson is the entertainment and feature writer for the Hutchinson Leader newspaper in Hutchinson, Minnesota. Johnson has been a writer all of her life beginning with a stint as editor of the Glencoe High School paper. She graduated summa cum laude from Crown College, St. Bonifacious, Minnesota, with a bachelor's degree in ethics and management. She has also received a certificate of achievement from the University of St. Thomas Center for Entrepreneurship after completing the Fast Track I program.
Johnson's work has appeared in Southwest Art, Midwest Art, Vista, The Artist's Magazine, Birder's World, Deer & Deer Hunting, Wildlife Art News, Pheasants Forever magazine, and Plate World. She has also written for many business clients, including the Southwest Minnesota Foundation, the Hadley Companies, Wild Wings, Dan Smith Wildlife Art, Bonnie Mohr Studio, On The Wildside, White Oak Gallery, and the Minnesota Craft Council.
Kay is also the author of the coffee table art book, "The Legacy of Les C. Kouba."
Johnson is single, and earlier this year she moved to rural Hutchinson -- a return to her country roots.
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