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Ruth Wren
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Ruth M. Wren is an author living in El Paso, TX.  She served as educational and Training Supervisor with the El Paso City/County
Health District.  She retired in 1991 and edited and published the Wren Kin Newsletter, winning second place twice in state competition.  In 1995 she discontinued the publication and taught genealogy at the Life Long Living Center at UTEP in 1996 and again in 2000 and 2001.  Early in 2000 she began writing her memoirs.  Still a student and occasional teacher, she writes on various subjects, including poetry and nonfiction.  She is a member of the El Paso Writers League, and won awards in their annual writing contest in 2005, 2006, and 2007.  She continues writing on her memoirs, tentatively called Comfortable in My Skin.  She recently published her first poetry chapbook Poetry Garden and plans to publish her memoirs and short story anthologies.
October Morning
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Ruth M. Wren
        I stretched and squirmed, slowly opened one eye,
       saw sunlight filter through a gray, dreary sky.
       "Get up!  I'm hungry," my stomach growled.
       "Shut up, you glutton," my drowsy brain howled.

       I closed my eyes-searched my inner self,
       and started to smile cause that silly elf
       said, "Let them simmer, turn over, stay still."
       Let your mind waken of its own free will."

       So I let my mind wander and time flew by,
       as I lay under cover and let my mind fly,
       over hill and dale, joining birds on the wing.
       October morning, you start with a zing.

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Published Works and EPWL Award Winnings

        Pubished works

Poetry Garden (2007)
"Life" (Chrysalis:EPCC Literary Journal 2007)
"October Morning" (Chrysalis: 2006)
"My Mother's Box Camera" (Nostalgia Magazine 2004)
"Wren Kin Newsletter" (Editor, Publisher 1990-1994)
"Rio Grande Researcher" (El Paso Genealogical Society Quartley 1991, 1994)
"Researchin' El Paso County" (El Paso Genealogical Society 1993, 1994)

         EPWL Award Winner

"Treadle Sewing Machine (Nonfiction: 2007)
"Journey of Change" (Nonfiction: 2007)
"Waiting" (Nonfiction: 2007)
"Wired Tight" (Fiction:2006)
"Renewal" (Nonfiction 2006)
"All Quiet Inside" (Poetry 2005)

          Writing Awards

Ruth Wren has been an active participant and winner of the Senior Olympics Writing Competition:
Since 2004 she has won four gold and four silver medals.