![]() It was love at first sight, and MJ never made it to Denver. On a brief stop home to visit her parents before transferring to a new job in Denver, she met Herm Auch, a graphic artist and editorial cartoonist for the Rochester newspaper. She enrolled in the Occupational Therapy program at Columbia University, which led to some wonderful years of working in a children's hospital near Hartford, Connecticut. After graduation, MJ headed for New York City to seek fame and fortune, but after a year of designing prints for men's pajamas, she decided she wanted to do something more meaningful with her life. Her interest in drawing continued through high school, and she went on to become an art major at Skidmore College. She wrote stories, drawn in comic book style with speech balloons for the dialog. ![]() MJ learned that a flock of chickens had almost the same range of personalities that could be found in a classroom, from the quiet, shy chicken to the big bully. One grandmother had a small backyard flock and the other grandmother and two bachelor uncles had a large farm that supplied eggs to half of Long Island. Summer visits to both of MJ’s grandmothers led to her fascination with chickens. They produced these extravaganzas in Noreen’s garage and organized the neighborhood boys into a sales force to sell tickets and refreshments. Her only literary efforts in those days were the plays which she and her girlfriend, Noreen, wrote for their marionettes. ![]() The thought of becoming a writer never occurred to MJ Auch as a child. ![]()
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