Laura Locke

Laura Locke is an educator, award-winning journalist, and editor of Kolbe Times. She is married to Bill, and they have three grown children and one gorgeous grandchild. Laura loves biking, cooking, reading, singing, and playing her accordion.

Aching Beauty; Unblinking Malevolence by Raymond Edwards

I can still remember my “Lord of the Rings” summer. It was the summer after grade eleven, and i was getting sick and tired of high school. I had lined up a steady but rather boring waitressing job, and one day I picked up The Fellowship of the Ring, the first book in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, at the public library. Continue reading