Art That Appreciates Us

I write to chronicle the past and present culture. As a Boomer, with eight grandchildren, it’s not only my duty to ascribe meaning to our fast-changing world; but taking pleasure to work words into meaningful metaphors colors my twilight years. The end result is to carry on my late father's influence on generational understanding. I was born to write.

#3 Daughter 'Becky' Templeman and Joe Cooper, 1986 in Denver

Rebecca Templeman was born and reared in Marshall, Michigan, and educated at Colorado State University, earning a B.A. Degree in English. She bloomed late as an author while developing a career as a real estate broker in three states. During residency in Charlottesville, Virginia (1993-2025), she pursued creative writing as a hobby. Beginning as a Bucket List endeavor, her short stories gave birth to plausible characters and real-time narratives, finding their home in the full-length novels of the CARRINGTON book series.

Scenes from Seven Days in Carrington, Volume 4, Seasons of Life—An Ode to Joe— were fashioned after Joe Cooper's earthly journey. Local color, impressionable politics, and changing American landscapes find inspiration in fictional family and friends. Amid cultural clashes, tensions, circumstances, and free will, they fight to survive in innocuous settings reminiscent of Marshall, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Colorado Springs, and Thomas Jefferson's Virginia. Recurring themes of wokeism prevail: Illegal immigration and the need for assimilation, Uni-party politics, biased mainstream media, and the tedium of socialism narratives, all at odds with a Judeo-Christian worldview.

And what's a good narrative without an endearing love story?

Templeman is shaped by Colonial American history and is enamored of old houses. Her writing style strikes a sentimental chord—stroking vulnerability but tinged with snarky realism. Moreover, she strives to portray current events with a backbeat for cultural change. Insomuch as a memoir can capture history, hubris, and hope, Papa Joe Cooper's life and times are in an influential league of their own.