Guest Speakers Gordon & Ella Mae Rayner: Tuesday, 9 June

The June meetings of the Savannah Writers Group will fall on Tuesday, 9 June and on Tuesday 23 June.

At the Tuesday, 9 June meeting, we will welcome guest speakers Gordon & Ella Mae Rayner. These High School Sweethearts have led very interesting lives. Ella Mae became an RN and Gordon did a three year stint in the Marine Corps before he joined the Border Patrol and later became a Narcotics Agent with the DEA. Through all his government assignments, the family traveled with him from state to state as a unit. Thus, the two years they spent in Paraguay were just more of the same.

Gordon’s work resulted in his acquiring Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and life in retirement was not the best of times. Ella Mae had written for a local newspaper before their final move to Savannah and she also knew that if Gordon would write about his work, his depression would be less of a problem. Thus the work on Foreign Service Family Style was begun.

Writing therapy was a success.  Foreign Service Family Style was well-received, and the Rayners are now working on a novel, Taurus, Taurus, Taurus.