Beth & Jim Aubrey
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Beth was born in a small coal camp town in Southeastern Kentucky. As a divorced single parent, she became a safety inspector and mine safety and first aid trainer, eventually becoming one of a handful of women in Kentucky who obtained First Class Mine Underground Foreman’s Certification in the 1980’s.
When demand for coal took a downturn, she rebounded with a career change to nursing. She completed two nursing programs, then relocated with her children to Lexington, KY where the three of them enrolled in a large university together. As a fulltime student, she worked full time as a Registered Nurse. Over her 34-year nursing career, she worked in a variety of practice settings, volunteered on medical missions to Brazil, Ecuador and Russia, and retired as a correctional nurse at a large prison. She devoted herself to family, education and career, putting her personal life on a twenty-nine-year hold after a painful divorce. In 2015, everything changed. Jim was born in a large fishing port in the Northwest of England. After completing Navigation and Radio Officer courses at Nautical College, his career dream of being Captain of his own ship was shattered by a correctable vision problem. Alternatively, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force, for a 12-year career specializing in electronics and ground radar systems. After leaving the RAF, Jim worked as an electronics, software and test systems engineer. He is a commissioned and juried artist and has exhibited at the Westminster Gallery and Royal Horticultural Halls in London, England. In 2016, he emigrated to the U.S.A. where he now lives with his wife, Beth in Kentucky. |
The Long Flight Home A True Story of Years Lost and Love Found
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Memoir
The Long Flight Home is based on a true story of a fifteen-year-old girl from a small coal mining town in Southeastern Kentucky who wrote a pen pal request to a pirate radio station based on a ship anchored near the Isle of Man. A reply came from a sixteen-year-old boy living at a large fishing port in the Northwest of England. They became great friends, corresponding through written letters for almost two years. After an unexpected turn of events, the girl was forced to abruptly abandon their friendship. They lost touch, neither knowing what happened to the other. Forty-two years later and now grown, he came across the bookmark she sent him in a Christmas card when they were teenagers, prompting him to do an internet search for her. This is the amazing story of their journeys. 
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