{"id":67,"date":"2018-11-01T02:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T02:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abbiejohnsontaylor.com\/wp\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:48:40","slug":"abbie-johnson-taylors-autobiography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.abbiejohnsontaylor.com\/wp\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was born in New York City on June 1, 1961. After about a year, my family moved to Boulder, Colorado. When I was about four years old, we moved to Tucson, Arizona, where we lived for about eight years. I attended the state school for the deaf and blind for about five and a half years before being mainstreamed into a public school. In 1973, we moved to Sheridan, Wyoming, and I continued to attend public schools.<\/p>\n

After graduating from Sheridan High School in 1980, I went to Sheridan College for two years and received an AA degree in music. I then transferred to Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, where I received a BA in music two and a half years later. After that, I studied music therapy at Montana State University in Billings for two years but received no degree. I then completed a six-month internship at a nursing home in Fargo, North Dakota, and returned to Sheridan in 1988. Soon after that, I became registered as a music therapist.<\/p>\n

About six months later, I started working at a nursing home and was employed there for fifteen years. During that time, I volunteered at other senior facilities, led a support group for blind and visually impaired adults, taught Braille, and served on the advisory board to a trust fund that allowed blind and visually impaired people to purchase adaptive equipment. I joined the YMCA and a choir. In 2005 when I married my late husband Bill, I quit my job and other volunteer obligations to write full time.<\/p>\n

My work has appeared in various publications including The Weekly Avocet <\/em> and Magnets and Ladders. I’m the author of three novels, two poetry collections, a memoir, and a short story collection.<\/em> All my books are available from Amazon and other online sources.<\/p>\n

Bill and I made our home here in Sheridan. After we were married, Bill suffered two strokes: one in 2006 and one in 2007, leaving him unable to use his left arm and leg, and I cared for him at home for six years. In September of 2012, I was forced to move him to a nursing home because he was losing strength and getting harder to lift. A month later, he passed.<\/p>\n

Thank you for stopping by. You can also visit my blog<\/a>\u00a0and Facebook page<\/a> as well as my Amazon<\/a>, Goodreads<\/a>, and Smashwords<\/a> pages to learn more about me and my writing and buy my books.<\/p>\n

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New! Living Vicariously in Wyoming: Stories<\/h2>\n

Copyright 2025 by Abbie Johnson Taylor<\/p>\n

Published independently with the help of DLD Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As defined in the first story, living vicariously means living your life through someone else’s. You\u2019re invited to live vicariously through the lives of the people in these stories. There\u2019s the lawyer who catches his wife in the act with a nun. A college student identifies with a character in a play. A young woman loses her mother and finds her father. And a high school student\u2019s prudish English teacher strenuously objects to a single word in her paper.<\/p>\n

In Wyoming, as in any other state, people fall in love, and sometimes relationships are shattered. Accidents, domestic violence, prejudice, and crimes all occur. Lives are torn apart, and people are reunited. Ordinary people deal with everyday and not\u2013so\u2013everyday situations.<\/p>\n

The 25 stories in this collection, most of which are set in Wyoming, are about how the various characters resolve their conflicts\u2014or not.<\/p>\n

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Click here for more information and ordering links<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy of Tess Anderson Photography <\/a><\/p>\n

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