Writer, speaker, journalist, photographer, teacher, weight-loss surgery patient and mother of four are just a few of the many words you can use to define Linda Sherwood.

Linda is currently at work writing a nonfiction memoir, Fat Man’s Daughter, which focuses on the impact weight can have on parenting and perceptions. For most of her life, Linda’s dad weighed more than 400 pounds, but despite his morbidly obese status, Linda thought of him only as Dad until he died in November 2003, and she was left to deal with her anger caused by her acceptance and his actions that allowed the limits weight placed on his life.

In August 2011, Linda decided to take charge of her own battle with weight and had vertical sleeve gastrectomy. You can read a brief summary of Linda’s struggles and check out the photos that shows Linda at various weights.

She lives in northern Michigan with her husband, Steve, and their four children, Autumn, Amanda, Maxine, and Justin, and an assortment of animals. You can get a glimpse of some of the pivotal players in Linda’s life by checking out these photos.

The Teacher
Linda teaches college-level English in both face-to-face and online classes. Before she began teaching, Linda was a journalist. She has written thousands of articles that have appeared in print and online in more than three countries.

The Daughter
She is the youngest of five children. She is younger than her siblings by 11, 13, 14 and 15 years. This is primarily due to her father being in the Air Force. He was in Thailand for a year. Linda was born 9 months after his return to the US. As a child, Linda had a penchant for tattling on her older siblings.

As a child, Linda moved quite a bit. By the time Linda was 8, she had lived in 7 or 8 different places (Little Rock, Arkansas; Hanover-Horton, Mich.; Brooklyn, Mich., Onsted, Michigan; New Symrna Beach, Fla.; Mesa, Arizona; and Grayling, Michigan to name a few). As an adult, she has lived in one place for more than 16 years. This is primarily because she married a man that has only lived in one county his entire life (although he was in the military for a while).

The Wife and Mother
Linda met her husband Steve when she was still in high school although he was a Bobcat, and she was a Viking. They started dating after Steve called Linda’s best friend and asked the best friend out. The best friend turned him down and gave him Linda’s number. Linda and Steve have been together for over 20 years and have four beautiful (but mouthy) children.

The Curriculum Vitae
If you’d like, you can check out Linda’s work and education history presented in a formal Curriculum Vitae.

About The Photos

All photos used on this site were taken by Linda Sherwood (unless otherwise stated) and are copyrighted. The photos may not be used without the expressed written permission of Linda Sherwood.

About This Site Design

Linda modified a WordPress template from Templatelite.

Linda learned HTML by taking the free course from Marcopia, Writing HTML. She highly recommends it!

Linda uses Adobe Photoshop to edit and alter images for this web site. She loves her Photoshop!

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