A random and informal list

Duncan, Janet's West Highland White Terrier, rules.

Janet & Al ran the Twin Cities Marathon twice (but won neither time).

One job Janet held shortly after graduating from college included reading (and writing 2-page reader reports on) unsolicited romance manuscripts for Silhouette Publishing. She also worked for a monthly magazine in New York and edited a weekly newspaper in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Janet has appeared in journals nationwide (see above).

In the black-and-white photograph above, which features about half of a high-school singing group, the girl at the far left is also named Janet Holmes. She was a freshman (and a soprano); the other Janet Holmes pictured was a senior (and an alto).

Margaret Atwood, in her novel Lady Oracle, creates a character who writes nurse-hospital romance novels, one of which is called Janet Holmes, Student Nurse. Atwood was writing the book when she visited Duke University in the mid-1970s, when Janet was a creative writing student selected to have work critiqued by Atwood.

The dome cabin in winter (above). It's also Janet's summer hideout.

Janet used to be something of a quilter. That was when she had "free time."

A film company once offered Janet $100 for the film rights to her poem "Partch Stations."

Janet & Al's 10-yr anniversary, with the whole family. Janet's five grandchildren appear in the above photo. All right, all right: step-grandchildren. Take the fun out of it, why don'tcha?