Flora Beach Burlingame has had three careers: Motherhood (on-going), Paralegal (retired), and Journalist/writer (on-going). She has lived in various California locations and currently resides in beautiful, western Washington State. During career #3 she won awards for her short stories, published free-lance magazine articles, and served as contributing editor for the Mariposa Museum and History Center's quarterly newsletter. For a number of years, she wrote a column and features for The Fresno Bee, a major California newspaper, and during that time was commissioned by The Bee to write a hundred years of history on three California counties for a Centennial edition. Flora's interest in history came from her father, a high school history teacher, who she says, "always knew the history of anywhere we traveled." Stories of the past dominate Flora's writing. Though Path of Progress is a novel, it is based on actual sermons and writings of her great grandfather.