Virginia Long is a widow, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She attended the University of Kentucky and is a retired office manager. She has lived in the same city for 75 years and in the same house for 49 of those years. During all this time, growth has been a constant in her neighborhood and surrounding town as well as her constantly expanding family. With the years have come changes, not only in the landscape but in lifestyles and perspectives. She enjoys writing about all these things.