Dorothy Regester Felton Turkot, better known asDotti Turkot, would have been 90 years old on Nov. 13, according to her obituary this summer from a local funeral home. In an earlier online bio I was surprised to see her birthday listed as Jan. 31. I’m not sure which is accurate or if it matters. What does matter is that Dotti was a woman of many talents, a character, described by a member of her writing group as a”modern-day Mae West and a renegade.”

After I retired from teaching and began attending meetings of the LBI Writers Group I was lucky enough to meet Dotti.