Dorothy Horne, a retired first-grade teacher, is an author, columnist, blogger and speaker in Longview, Texas.  She and her late husband, Byron, have two daughters and four grandsons. They were married 41 years. Byron passed into Glory on May 29, 2018. His was a life well-lived, and his legacy continues.

Dorothy began writing columns in 2009 and submitting them to the local paper, the Longview News-Journal (and later, their online blog as well as her personal blog, DotSpot). In her initial  writings, she chronicled God's provision and grace through her daughter's postpartum depression and subsequent mental illness after the birth of her first son. 

Then in 2011, her husband was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. For the next seven years, Dorothy wrote about their journey through the disease - the heartache, the struggles, but most of all - God's continued grace and provision in the midst of it. 

How the book came about: In late 2014, at the urging of a number of people (and with lots of help), Dorothy began compiling her writings to date into a book, "Glimpses of Grace: Walking in Hope Through Alzheimer’s and Ordinary Days." It was published in March of 2015. In addition to the columns about their journey through Alzheimer's, the contents also include a variety of reflections, humorous observations and thoughts about the quiet grace and hope one can find in ordinary days. 

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Dorothy continues to write, and plans to begin compiling a second collection of her columns later this year.