About Me — Leah Welborn

1.) I was born near the end of the Nixon administration — perhaps that’s what set me off on the wrong foot. It was a few days before Christmas in 1972 when I made my debut in Austin, Texas, the only child of my parents’ union and the only child my mother would ever have. My father had a daughter from a previous marriage, but I wouldn’t find out about her for years; always the victim, he claimed he’d been driven away from her by the child’s mother…