AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: Randy Adamson

    Randy Adamson grew up at the corner of Fifth Street and Ninth Avenue on the north side of Greeley, Colorado. His father and uncle's mortuary was on the corner, his house was first house to the east, and his grandmother's house was the first to the north. This little triangle of buildings became the backdrop of many of the important occurrences in Randy's life.

     During his years growing up, the north side of Greeley housed a large portion of the city's Hispanic population. With a Greek momma, his coloring allowed him to fit in well with many of his neighbors. There were not a lot of Greeks in Greeley then, but he found out that Hispanics, though separated by an ocean and a sea, had much in common with his mother's ancestors. Both cultures had a love of family and valued respect for other people.

     Randy learned early on that when he embellished a story, it had more appeal to his listeners. When he began to write, he discovered that he got himself in a lot less trouble writing fiction than in trying to enhance a true story's weak plot. At one point he considered being a newspaper journalist. After two classes in journalism in college, he realized reporting the truth would not be something he could do with integrity, nor would he have as much fun as when he created his own reality.

     In his senior year in high school, Randy became aware of the reality that God did indeed exist, and if He existed, needed to be worshiped. Since then, his belief in God has played a key role in decisions, practices, and vocations that have effected his life. Bible reading has become almost a daily routine with him, and he has found that he is intrigued by the possible backstories of the characters he reads about. 

    Other possibilities were presented by his reading of Scripture. He became curious about the stones that would have sung out if the people around Jesus had not cried out, “Hosanna.” What was life like for blind Bartimaeus and his buddy before and after they asked Jesus to heal them? There is only twelve verses about the wise men in Matthew. What prompted them to travel seven hundred miles to visit the baby Jesus, while the Jewish spiritual leaders who were three miles away in Jerusalem did nothing? The world around Adamson's childhood, at the corner of Fifth Street and Ninth Avenue, influenced his interest to write fictitious stories that were impacted by his faith. All of his books, God's Ear and GASPAR and PILATE are the result of his musings about Biblical 'What ifs?'.