Poet William Carlos Williams proclaimed "No ideas but in things." Ideas also reside in the people who use those "things" and the places where they use them. Factory worker's daughter, secretary, army wife, 'divorcee, ' teacher, professor, single mom, step-mom, bereaved parent, activist, volunteer, solitary beach walker, Susan Horton is no tourist. She has lived, worked, taught, researched, written, or lectured in Defiance, Ohio; El Paso, Texas; in Honolulu, in London, Manhattan, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and on Cape Cod. Still using Gregg shorthand and climbing ladders-real, not figurative-seeing each place, person, or thing as an affable ambusher, ambling up to remind us of where we come from, who we were back then, offering up some answers to David Byrne's 'eighties question: "How did I get here?" Manual Labor, Maximal Love is Susan R. Horton's seventh book. All are available on Amazon, including on her Author Page there. Her two most recent are also available through Barnes and Noble and ALibris.