Mary Palumbo is in award winning, forty-year elementary educator, emerita. Her years in a classroom let her to create the concept and the title for The Hare on the Chair — her years of sharing a childhood-bedroom bond let her straight to her sister Susan, the poet, for another of their lifelong adventures. A lifelong Rhode Islander, a wife, a loving mother, a worldwide traveler, a giver, a seer and a loyal friend to many in her own meadow.