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ABOUT BONNIE
Bonnie was raised as a
little girl out on a ranch in Los Ojuelos, Texas, where Texas
Rangers were once stationed back in 1850 to protect the trade
route to Laredo and Corpus Christi, Texas. She came close to
being born out at the Los Ojuelos ranch, but with her mother’s
prayers they made it into town which was 45 miles away. They ran
out of gas, but were close enough to the hospital to run up the
hill of the old Mercy Hospital in Laredo, Texas to get a
wheelchair. Bonnie is of Irish and Mexican descent and is the
youngest of her family of four growing up in a small town in Mirando City, Texas where everybody knew everyone.
Back in the 70’s, there wasn’t much to do in a little
town with only two TV stations dedicated to soap operas during
the daytime, leaving Bonnie to sit on the front porch and watch the
few cars pass by while daydreaming. In her mind there was always
the question of, “What if?” As she grew older, the county opened
a small library in town where she would read every single
Harlequin Romance novel that was there to read, reading about
far away places. Now here she is writing her own romance
stories. “Who would have thought!” she said excitedly.
Time has since passed, with so many beautiful memories
of old Mirando City and she is now married. This December will
be 21 years of marriage plus adding an addition 5 years of
dating for a total of 26 years with her husband and best friend.
She has two children with her husband, a son who just graduated
from high school and a daughter who is in junior high, which have
kept Bonnie pretty busy these past years at their school, as she
always volunteered for room mother for her children.
Bonnie currently looks forward to the special holidays
where she and her siblings along with their children get
together to catch up on what has been going on in their lives.
“I love my brothers and my sister and all of my nieces and
nephews dearly and believe that family is so important!” she
says. “Yes sometimes we disagree, but just as the Mexican saying
says, 'As you look at your hand your fingers are of the same
hand, but they are each different and the same goes for family
siblings.'
“What is important is that we should never
take things to heart and remember that we all have our own
opinions and that’s what makes us different and interesting.”
INTERVIEW
Q: Tell us about your writing. A:
Well, I don’t write everyday because I’m self employed with my
printing business and soap manufacturing business I'm so
committed to. However, when an idea comes to me, I become
obsessed and that’s all I can think of is the story in my mind
as it’s coming together. I daydream thinking about the story
and as I am imaging it I put the pieces together in my head.
Then, I begin to write about it and continue until I finish the
story. Q: What is your favorite holiday?
A:
Halloween! I enjoy buying lots and lots of candy for the
children and decorating the front lawn. I also, enjoy having
my friends and family over for a masquerade party.
Q: Who are your favorite comedians?
A: George Lopez and Carlos Mencia.
Q: What music do you listen to?
A: It all depends what I’m doing. If I
am doing housework, classic rock like Gun’s & Roses, Bon Jovi, The Eagles, and Journey just to name a few. When I’m enjoying myself in the backyard gardening or
swimming, classic rock. Getting dressed in the morning which
can take an hour, classic rock. When I write, soundscapes.
I like the sound of the waves at the beach, the sound of
rain, and the sound of a thunderstorm. For dancing music I like Tejano & cumbias. It is a style of
Mexican American popular music with prominent accordion
parts, influenced by the polka and country and western
together with various forms of traditional Mexican music.
Little Joe, La Mafia, Selena Quintanilla, and Emilio are
some of my favorites. And when I drink Tequila, mariachi
music such as Vicente Fernández, Ana Gabriel, Juan Gabriel, and
Pedro Fernández.
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