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B.B. Browning (Barbara Browning Carrio) was born in Washington D.C. Her mom was an educator in one way or another all of her life - tutor, teacher, principal, mentor to many; English as a Second Language and alternative education for struggling young adults were two of her passions. Her dad worked in marketing and sales, which meant moving back and forth to Michigan (three times), Pennsylvania (twice), and Illinois (twice) as her dad was promoted or accepted a new position elsewhere.

Among her mostly happy memories are making fried apples with her dad, climbing trees, pretending her youngest sister was a doll to be dressed up, and sitting on the kitchen counter with her other sister, stirring a very large amount of Hershey鈥檚 chocolate syrup B.B. Browning (Barbara Browning Carrio) was born in Washington D.C. Her mom was an educator in one way or another all of her life - tutor, teacher, principal, mentor to many; English as a Second Language and alternative education for struggling young adults were two of her passions. Her dad worked in marketing and sales, which meant moving back and forth to Michigan (three times), Pennsylvania (twice), and Illinois (twice) as her dad was promoted or accepted a new position elsewhere.

Among her mostly happy memories are making fried apples with her dad, climbing trees, pretending her youngest sister was a doll to be dressed up, and sitting on the kitchen counter with her other sister, stirring a very large amount of Hershey鈥檚 chocolate syrup into milk.

During all the moving about, a highlight was visiting her grandparents at their home on a lake in Indiana. Those memories include swimming, water skiing, jumping on trampolines in a day when people weren't quite so worried about such things (if they were, she and her friends didn't pay much attention), and Santa Claus and Rudolph visiting on Christmas Eve, plus knowing many people who seemed old, but in reality were in their late 40s or 50s, and who made an indelible impression on her life.

In high school, she worked at jobs where she learned such random skills as how to make keys, measure and cut fabric, sell fish and candy (but not together, thankfully), build vinyl yellow-and-orange flowered cardboard drawers, schedule a trucking pickup, and the importance of telling each and every customer, 鈥淭hank You For Shopping at Kresge鈥檚.鈥�

After high school, she attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where she earned a bachelor鈥檚 in marketing management (and an unofficial minor in English).

After a couple of years working in Ohio as a marketing analyst for an insurance company, researching and writing a marketing newsletter, on a semi-whim she moved with her actor boyfriend to Colorado. In the early Colorado years, she worked in advertising and real estate, with a short stint as a paralegal. Along the way, another branch of life, overlapping with others, included working with her then-husband in his general contracting business, managing financial matters and other such details.

Later she was director of development communications at the University of Denver, where she also earned her master鈥檚 in mass communication and taught writing labs to undergraduates. Her graduate thesis became part of the basis for School Wars: Resolving Our Conflicts Over Religion and Values (1996, Jossey-Bass), a book she coauthored (under Barbara B. Gaddy) with T. William Hall and Robert J. Marzano.

Bob Marzano subsequently hired her to work with him at one of the regional education laboratories under the U.S. Department of Education, where she was Managing Editor, publishing programs, editing, and writing. During that time, she also was fortunate to work and write with Bob on a number of his many influential books and publications.

Life writing nonfiction, almost exclusively in education, also included serving as lead writer and co-author of Delivering on the Promise: The Education Revolution (Battino, Schreiber, DeLorenzo, & Gaddy-Carrio, Solution Tree, 2008), which took her to Alaska and the wonderful Alaska Native Village of Tatitlek.

Along the long but good way of work and life and raising her son, Brian, she started writing bits and pieces of stories, short and long. Some of those bits came together in her first published fiction book, Curious Stories from Wash Town: A Serious Case of Rampant Thinking (2018), through Wild Dog Publishing, a name based on her husband Glen鈥檚 adventures with never-seen but ever-feared wild dogs in the hills of California. ...more

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“Like the thoughts inside our minds, sometimes stories wander around inside before they find themselves outside in a book. Some stories, like thoughts, don鈥檛 end up out here for you to read. They just toddle around in their slippers and then toddle away for a piece of blueberry-almond triple-swirl pie.”
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“Stories can do and be anything they wish. Just like thoughts are sometimes upside down and inside out and sometimes don鈥檛 make sense, stories don鈥檛 have to make sense, even to themselves. So if something seems catawampus or upside down in these stories, please don鈥檛 spend too much time trying to figure it out.
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After all, people like to eat normal foods, but sometimes they might eat a laugh or a chortle or a snicker or they might wear yellow socks on their heads. You see, people and dogs and other Beings do the most amazing and silly things, just because.”
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