Rosemary Francis lived for two challenging decades in Southeast Asia. Armed with a linguistics degree, and Public Relations and TESOL diplomas,  she worked in hotel management, and taught tertiary students.  Rosemary  was an Adviser for Civil Defence,  served on the Board of Consumers Association, and on the Board of Governors of a large College.  She was a regular columnist for the Straits Times, and a free-lance journalist  for 22 international publications. The author of 12 books and several radio plays, Rosemary is currently working on modern day parables to reach children of the computer age, and researching and writing her family history . She continues to write as a freelance journalist. Recently widowed, Rosemary left Canterbury exhausted by thousands of earthquakes.  She drove north with 3 large dogs, 3 elderly cats and six doves, all stressed from the devastating  ‘quakes.  (They have since endured more violent shaking in Blenheim where they now live.) Rosemary is the proud Mother of four adult children -  ( living in four different countries!)  and has 11 grandchildren.  She misses her Canterbury farm life, but is enjoying being a ‘hand’s - on’ Grandma for 2 of the eleven.

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