Diane learned to express herself through writing at an early age. Being number five in a line of eight children, she needed to be creative if she wanted to be heard.
While growing up in the rural countryside of Kentucky, I was surrounded by an eclectic group of family and friends. My earliest recollections are of living in the little white house on Orchard Avenue in Louisville.
I was born and raised on Chicago’s south side into a family of staunch White Sox fans and Democratic Party bosses . . . and much to their consternation, I bleed Cubbie blue and refuse to discuss politics.
Jillian Cypress, a Louisville native, grew up as a Highland’s kid, frequently spending her early years wandering Bardstown road back when the wall in front of Ear X-Tacy was the place to be.
