Death in Three Quarter Time is an eclectic collection of original
short stories. By expressing life's true meaning through the written
word, these stories deal with conflict and times of grief that will
surely bring insight and understanding into the reader's life.
About the Author:
Sioux Dallas, a widow, is a retired high school coach and classroom
teacher as well as a retired horse trainer and riding instructor. Her
columns on sporting events and training horse and rider appeared for
thirty-two years in five newspapers around Washington D.C. and later in
Zephyrhills, Florida. She took journalism classes in college and is a
member of a writing group in Zephyrhills. She has played many musical
instruments but has had more pleasure in playing the bagpipes. She
teaches square dancing on horseback (the horses do the dancing) and is a
water aerobics instructor for a nationally known gym. Sioux has been a
Bible teacher for many years. She has had short stories and poems
published.
In the late 1950s and early '60s, Sioux taught blind and mentally
challenged children, free of charge on her own horses and while she was
teaching public school. She was invited to attend a brunch meeting in
the Red Fox Inn in Middlesboro, Virginia to discuss open riding schools
for the handicapped in the United States.
Sioux is a past Organizing Regent for the DAR, Past President for the
UDC, past High Priestess of the Ladies' Oriental Shrine of North
America, member of the Seventeenth Century Colonial Dames, a bagpipe
playing member and Secretary of the Gulf Coast Pipe and Drum Corps who
marched in parades and played for many social events, organizer and
leader of the Bit and Bridle 4-H Club where she taught riding, correct
care of equines, correct showing, stable care and taught the teens to be
horse show judges.
Sioux and her husband retired to Florida where she organized and led the
only recognized riding club in Florida. She taught how to organize and
run a horse show and keep written records for horse shows.
