The Flying Shuttle
Man's fate is wrought in the loom of years,
To pattern traced by an unseen hand
The shuttle flies and the weaver sighs,
For the work is slow and tragic and grand.
Some shuttles are filled with golden thread
For the few great souls who march in the van,
But most are filled with the thread used for
The warp and woof of the average man.
Stuart F. Reed
ABOUT DONNA
My name is Donna Hechler Porter, and I have always lived with one foot in this world and the other in the past. It's oftentimes a strange way to live, but it is who I am.
When I was just barely out of high school, my grandfather gave me a notebook filled with letters and documents that a number of people had sent him over the years on the McQueen family. I took that notebook, scoured through the information, realized I could go to libraries and do more research, and eventually had three poster boards of a family tree of the McQueens.
Today, that family, along with the Crews family, takes up three very large genealogy books. I have published four novels loosely based on the lives of my ancestors, and I have published four books on my family history, with a fifth coming out the winter of 2025. I also have a few smallish books on various subjects.
I currently teach middle-school English and Literature at a small private school and tutor children both in-person and by Zoom. I never met a thrift-store I didn't like, and when not teaching, reading, or writing, I dream of log cabins and rose gardens.
Stay awhile here at The Flying Shuttle. Even if my ancestors or not yours, I tell stories of long ago, and the stories of my people are the stories of everyone!
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