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| Libby Calhoun recalls making up stories and song lyrics long before she could write. Born into a large family of "hams", she was encouraged at a very young age to sing and recite poetry for civic, social and church organizations in her rural south Texas hometown. Whenever she didn't like the lyrics to a song, she simply re-wrote them to suit the occasion. She also recalls having "pun battles" with her older sisters. Libby's craftiness with words and what she calls "a sense of humor that's slightly off-center" found a balance when she discovered melodrama. The resulting four plays, with such titles as Put the Saddle on the Stove, Ma, 'Cause I'm Riding the Range Tonight, are what Libby says she most enjoyed writing and directing. She also gets a great deal of enjoyment out of writing and performing personalized lyrics for the birthdays and other special occasions of friends and relatives. As the mother of three active children (now grown), Libby kept busy advising, teaching, volunteering, and driving carpools "It's amazing how much of my writing gets done on scrap paper while I'm sitting in the dentist's office or waiting in the school carpool line." So Long, Joe!, her first published work, was conceived on a Sunday morning while Libby was sitting through the same church service for the third time. Libby directed the children's summer music camp at King of Glory Lutheran, Dallas, Texas from 1985 -1995 and began a similar program at St Andrew's Lutheran Church in Beaverton, Oregon, in 1996 where she has also volunteered as a costume designer for Westview High School. (Nov 1994 Choristers Guild Letters and 6/15/2002 bio) |
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