Elece is a freelance writer with twenty-five published book projects and several hundred online and print magazine articles to her credit. She is a mother to seven grown children and boasts twenty grandchildren. Elece loves nature, rocks and fossils, trees, birdwatching, butterflies, and especially orchids and other flowers. She is attending college once again after retiring from 23 years of school teaching, to obtain a photography degree. Elece and her husband Ron have been happily married for forty-three years and live on a pecan farm in northwest Oklahoma.