About the Author

Barbara J. Radcliffe has lived in Melbourne, Florida since 1963. She is a retired mental health counselor. Her five grown children are Liz, Caroline, Diana, Jonathan and Christopher. She also has eight grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and an overweight cat. As well as having been a waitress, she continues to teach Myers-Briggs personality courses locally. She also works as a choir director and organist. She played keyboard in a dance band called "The Has-Beens", was onstage and backstage at local community theaters for decades (she appeared briefly with Richard Chamberlain as the Best Peasant in Monty Python's "Spamalot", and spent ten years managing a dental office. The only autographed letters she owns are from Jack Lemmon and Erma Bombeck. She is a prize-winning playwright. Her next play, based on the recent much-televised trial in Orlando and titled "Sunshine", will be presented locally through the Playwrights Workshop in February, 2010. She could fill a page with the women who have been her friends along her path: Charlotte, Tessa, Sue, Suellen, Cynthia, Marilyn, Darci, Peggy, Sally, Maureen, Sylvia, and many more--heartfelt thanks for so much encouragement. "I Could Always Be a Waitress" is her first novel.