N.L. Sharp N.L. Sharp has a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an educational media endorsement from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She is the author of Effie's Image and The Ring Bear, selected by Nebraska's Center for the Book as the 2004 winner in the Children's Category. Nancy and her family live in Fremont, NE

Roselyn Ogden Miller When Roselyn Ogden Miller read of the "empty nest syndrome," she feared it. Probably because she was raised with six siblings and is the mother of five children. So even before her oldest child left home, she began her fight against it with a licensed child daycare in her home, where she cared for more than a hundred children over a twenty year span.