Still Climbing

Still Climbing is a biography covering the long fulfilling life of Betty Phipps Roberts. The book is unique as it is non-fictional but contains thirteen short stories which are fiction written over a span of forty-plus years. From early childhood Betty wanted to be a writer but financial necessity and a large family required her to spend a lifetime as a Registered Nurse. After graduation from the University of Virginia School of Nursing she eventually was licensed in six states as she followed her husbands when they made career changes. Betty never gave up the ambition to write and she attended classes in Creative writing English History and other subjects not offered in Nursing school at the University of Alabama both in Huntsville and in Tuscaloosa as well as writers workshops whenever they were available. After retiring from Nursing Betty pursued oil painting as a hobby taking classes from the more prominent artists in her hometown.