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                       Welcome to My World!

    My name is Lin Waterhouse. I'm a freelance writer living and working in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks. With the help of my son Mark Richter, I have created this website to share my life and my work.

    I'm one of those very fortunate people who retire from one life only to find another more fascinating and rewarding world beyond. After one lifetime of being wife and soccer mom, I plunged into the frightening role of divorced woman and single mother. That life forced me to become a business person to pay for such luxuries as groceries, insurance, car payments and athletic shoes for two growing boys.

    As I glided into my fourth decade, I met Dave Waterhouse, and he has proved to be one lucky find. Together we watched with pride and relief as our boys moved into adulthood. With our eyes on retirement, we moved to Prescott, Arizona, to begin another life phase, but after six years there, we relocated to Ozark County, Missouri, where Dave's family's roots are deep.  We built our home on the land where he wandered as a boy, and I work as a substitute teacher in the same school where he was educated (300 students from preschool through high school).

    Within a short time, culture shock and loneliness for friends and family in the west -- as well as longing for urban delights like libraries, museums, shopping malls, and Starbucks -- caused me to regret the move. Only after I reclaimed an ambition of my youth to be a writer did I find satisfaction.

    Today, I write regularly for local and regional newspapers and magazines. My focus is searching out historical Ozark curiosities and interviewing local artists and craft persons. I am seeking a publisher for my first novel Deadly Secrets at Hodgson's Mill, and I am hard at work on the true story of the 1928 dance hall explosion in West Plains, Missouri.

    I looked back to the future to find my best life yet!