Welcome

Hello and Welcome to My Online Home!

I’m Laura Meer Barkley, the author of This Childhood of Mine: A Memoir of My Last Summer with My Mentally Ill Mother and Alcoholic Father.

I’m also a teacher and have been teaching all my adult life. At the age of twenty-two, I opened a dance school, and after traveling the world with my students, I fell in love with English language, became an English-as-a-foreign-language teacher, and immigrated to the US.

Now I reside in Maryland and am getting my master’s degree in Elementary Education at Walden University while doing internship at a local school. I enjoy people and socializing. In my free time, I like to walk in botanical gardens while listening to audiobooks. When at home, I like to cook, drink black tea, and eat chocolates.

I’m blessed with wonderful daughter Amina, husband Timothy, and two feisty Chihuahuas Vincent and Dominic.

I hope you will enjoy reading my book and listening to its audio version as much as I enjoyed writing and narrating it. I also hope you will laugh where I laughed and cry where I cried. If this book moves you—or confuses you—please write to me.

I wish you the best of luck.

Stay safe.

LMB x (❁´◡`❁)