Carol Lynn Pearson lives in northern California and has authored more than 40 books and stage plays. Many of her poems have been widely reprinted in such places as the Ann Landers column and Chicken Soup for the Soul, as well as college literary textbooks. In addition to Goodbye, I Love You, the story of her life with her husband, her books include Consider the Butterfly, a finalist in the inspiration/ spiritual category of the 2002 Independent Publishers Book Awards; The Lesson; A Stranger for Christmas; and a one-woman play, Mother Wove the Morning. A complete list of her books and plays can be found at www.clpearson.com.