Joce Barlow was born in a coal car and raised in a theme park in the New Hebrides. It was there she grew to love the soft, gentle rhythms of bluegrass music and the philosophy of Kierkegaard which has so deeply affected her work.

After an extended study program at the Sorbonne, she hitchhiked her way through the Breton countryside, tracing her genealogy to Mayflower passengers and Vikings named “Bareleggs,” and befriending such notables as Cliff Richard and Marie Osmond, before returning to her first love, roller disco.

Now relatively settled, Jocelyn Boblink lives in a love shack whose tin roof is busted, where she focuses on compulsive redecorating, developing a solvent for “washable” markers and eating dried mangoes. She enjoys teaching Sunday School to awestruck fifth graders and fighting poison ivy on steep enbankments by Lake Shafer. An obsessive surfer who frequents eBay, Pixar, and Townhall, she and her husband Grendel have three children, each named after characters from “Peanuts.”

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