Shirley Gilmore, the author of Bucky and the Lukefahr Ladies: Walking the Labyrinth, is a teacher. “No matter what job I have, I will always be a teacher,” she says. “It's in my DNA. If I had lived in Paleolithic times, I would have been the storyteller of the clan, preserving our people's history and tales and passing them on to the next generation.” Shirley taught history and various social studies classes to students in grades 7-12 for twenty-five years and earth science for four years at the university level. She currently lives in the woods at a mystical place she calls Glendragon. She built her cottage there on the spot where she had been inexplicably drawn for many years. Whatever force resides there not only continues to attract her, but it also messes with a compass.