Mary McCauley  Writer and Educator

Greetings!  I'm Mary McCauley, a published writer and educator and happen to be a 4th generation Oklahoman.  I write fiction with a humorous twist and nonfiction articles, essays, stories and even books. 

I was born in Tulsa, OK and graduated from Will Rogers High School and from the University of Tulsa with a BS in Education with an emphasis on social studies. (You're favorite class in high school, right?)  I couldn't find any job after college except as a secretary, but I met my husband Ross at a crappy job.  I worked as a substitute teacher several years and taught full time for two years in the late 1980s at a small K-12 school.  I taught History, Yearbook for one year, where I learned a lot about photograpy, and I was a allowed to teach Creative Writing (my favorite class).

By that time we had three children Matt, Will and Sarah, and we had to have two incomes. I went back to school in 1990. My wonderful husband allowed me to do this by taking care of the kids and house most of the time.  My mother-in-law Lela also helped a lot. After three years of academic hell, (nursing school is not for the weak!) I graduated with a BS in Nursing from the University of Tulsa.

So skip a head a few years, I write full time. Ross and I live in McAlester, OK, which is a change I'm still getting used to. He has a great job with great benefits. So I got my teeth fixed. Hurray! Two of our kids are gone. Matt got married last year to Barbara, and now we have a new daughter and a granddaughter Hope. Sarah is in Tulsa, and Will is going to college fulltime and comes home on the weekends.

So I'm trained as a nurse and a teacher.  One of my greatest desires is to teach people that diabetes is a manageable disease.   My husband and I are diabetics, and we had a beautiful Labrador Retriever Xena who was insulin dependent diabetic.  She lived 5 years with diabetes, but died last summer from cancer.

Xena

I am a member of the McAlester McSherry Writers and the OWFI--The Oklahoma Writer's Federation, Inc.  www.owfi.org.

I also belong to Grand Avenue Methodist Church in McAlester, Oklahoma.   ww.grandavenuemcalester.org

My son Matt and hero is serving his country in the U.S. Army. He is getting ready to be deployed to Iraq. Please pray for him and his wife Barbara and daughter Hope.  He is in Iraq near Bagdad now. I'm getting new from Barbara. My granddaughter is a cheerleader now.

Matthew, Barbara and Hope McCauley

Ross McCauley 

What We Do

Ross has a great Chili receipe that will clear your sinuses and will curl your hair.   If you like a copy, Send a SASE (a self-addressed stamped envelope) along with $2.00.

Address to: Ross McCauley, Chili Recipe, 506 E. Seminole Ave., McAlester, OK 74501.

What's New?

Ross my husband and I are working on a book DIABETES IS A MANAGEBLE DISEASE.

 SYMPTOMS OF DIABETES 

• Frequent urination
• Excessive thirst
• Extreme hunger
• Unusual weight loss
• Increased fatigue
• Irritability
• Blurry vision

The symptoms of diabetes come from the American Diabetes Association (ADA)website--www.diabetes.org.

The ADA webiste has anything you need to know about diabetes.

A dollar of each book I sell will go to the American Diabetes Association.   

          Mary McCauley

Oklahoma Hearts Online.com is available on this website, and on these sites. www.Amazon.com, www.PublishAmerica.com, www.BarnesandNoble.com 

You can ask for it in any bookstore. If they don't have it, they can order it for you.

OKLAHOMA HEARTS ONLIN.COM, a romantic suspense novel is set in Oklahoma City and Pawhuska, OK.

I chose Oklahoma as a setting for my latest book OKLAHOMA HEARTS ONLIN.com.  My hero, Ross Dupree, is a rancher and a state representative from Pawhuska. He's also an attorney and a former cop. He's never been married. His fiancee was murdered a decade before, and he carries a round a lot of guilt. He is a Native American belonging to the Osage Tribe. 

Annie Smith, my heroine is a young single mother whose former husband isn't making child support payments. She teaches history (my former occupation) in a public high school in Oklahoma City.  Annie is also a woman of faith, the daughter of a Baptist minister.

My guru and famous writing teacher--the OKLAHOMA WRITING DIVA Peggy Fielding says Oklahoma is considered exotic by New York editors. We have urban business men and women, real Cowboys, American Indians (Native Americans), farmers, top universities, oil wells, roughnecks, roughnecks who work on oil wells, ranchers,  writers and lots of open country around where I live. 

Oklahoma has a varied geography with lots of lakes, beautiful green, rolling countryside,mountains, and the red dirt of central Oklahoma.  We have one of the most fascinating state histories. We're also one of the youngest states and celebrated our 100th birthday in 2007. Our orginal state capitol was  Guthrie, but the state seal was stolen and was taken to Oklahoma City. So, it became the state capitol.

There is a wealth of material to draw upon for stories. I grew up literally on my grandfather's knee listening to stories about how my family lived in Indian Territory--around Talhequah, OK--the Cherokee capitol. He also spoke the language and sang songs when he had a little too much beer. I heard that my grandmother could ride and was an excellent  shot. Her father was a doctor and a pharmacist and lived outside Talhequah. 

I also grew up surrounded by women of faith. My mother took us--the kids to the Baptist church on Sundays and Wednesdays. As I got older, I grew to appreciate the faith of these women--who lived it. I was grounded in the Bible, and had to memorize scriptures that come to mind even now.

Hold to your hats!  You can read an excerpt from OKLAHOMA HEARTS ONLINE.COM on the next page.

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