Author Description

The AuthorDr. ten Brink is a science educator of 47 years, 37 years as a science administrator. She has coordinated science in grades kindergarten through 12 for Texas Education Agency, Round Rock Independent School District, and Austin Independent School District. She holds three degrees in science and an additional master's degree in school administration. Dr. ten Brink has served as president of the international science teachers, Texas science administrators, and Texas elementary science teachers which she founded. Her muse is water. She was awarded a $2.95 million Technology in Education federal grant to study water quality with 150 teachers and their students throughout Texas. She is a recipient of the Conservator of the Colorado River Award which she shared posthumously with Lady Bird Johnson. The City of Austin presented Dr. ten Brink the distinguished service award.Her inspiration began in 2013 when she compiled and published the haiku of her mother, Irene Sugar Hamilton Rieck. The Haiku of Barbara ten Brink is part of a series of haiku, poetry, and stories and is entered on these pages chronologically. The ArtThe paintings shown on these pages are a creative outlet of expression inspired by the family's life at the Guadalupe River for over 40 years and the ten Brink House at Canyon Lake, Texas. The paintings published in Vol. 3 were all painted in 2016. The author and artist wishes her readers to know that Dr. ten Brink held a paintbrush for the first time in 2014.