Noel Barton spent her teen years in the Bootheel of Missouri after her mother's death to cancer, but now resides in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She is a mother, grandmother, widowed (twice), best friend to her little dog Zacchaeus and a retired travel counselor. She is very active in her church and community. Watch for the Whirlwinds is her first novel. Although not an autobiography, many aspects of the book are drawn from personal experiences. It is her wish that readers of Watch for the Whirlwinds will find peace to cross off some of the never's in their lives and find forgiveness toward those