Ann Bolinger-McQuade is a regular contributor to magazines, a popular workshop facilitator and radio talk show guest. Ann shares her curiosity and passion for discovering the hidden obvious and encourages us to tune into the guidance and support that surrounds us all.
Bolinger-Mcquade’s perspective of the world as alive, nurturing and filled with personal oracles springs naturally from her Native American ancestry. As a child growing up in Kansas she was intrigued with the idea of having Native American ancestors, but never considered her heritage relevant to her life.
Her ancestral imprints began to emerge when a series of personal events that were triggered by her breast cancer diagnosis sent her hurling onto what she describes as an invisible moving sidewalk. (Imagine the people carriers in airports.) She believes that at certain times we all land on such a sidewalk, designed to carry us to a specific destination. This particular sidewalk transported her to a place where oracles that were hiding in plain sight seemed to magically appear at precisely the right time.
Ann coined the term personal oracles to describe those mysterious messages that guide and often comfort us, and in so doing illuminate an interconnected world that is tuned in and available to us at all times.
Ann makes her home in Tucson and Taos with the love of her life --- her husband Kenneth --- and her dogs Rusty and Pandora and a cat named Moon Boy. For the many blessings in her life she gives thanks.
Kenneth Francis McQuade was born in London, England in 1932.
Kenneth McQuade’s fascination with aircraft was seeded during the nightly air raids of WWII in the heart of London as he perched on the stairs inside the neighborhood bomb shelter along with other young children who were all trying to spot German “doodlebugs”in the sky above, and listening for their distinct sound. All of London knew the sound stopped just before the bomb exploded.
Kenneth, his mother Noreen, his younger brother Terry, and sister Moya were relocated to the countryside after a bomb demolished the flat where the young family had been living while his father Bob was away serving his country.
In his mid-twenties, with his degree in Aeronautical engineering in hand, Kenneth left England for an aeronautical engineering job in Canada, before being recruited by Rockwell Aviation in the United States. There, McQuade was assigned to the NASA space team and served as Chief Engineer on the first space shuttle. During his long career at Rockwell, McQuade led teams that developed the GPS Guidance System, Night Vision Technology, and a steady stream of classified systems designed to protect and defend us all.
In business, Kenneth McQuade’s motto was well known:
"There’s always a way."
In the mid-1980’s, Kenneth met and married Author Ann Bolinger-McQuade and became an invaluable sounding board for her work. Showing interest and sharing his unique perspective, he became a reliable first line-reader of her print and online articles, as well as her first published book that followed, EVERYDAY ORACLES: Decoding The Divine Messages That Are All Around US. Published by Tarcher/Penguin, NY in 2013.
When, following a massive stroke in 2014, Kenneth McQuade’s body shut down, he stayed.
He then invited Ann to become his scribe to document information for a book they would create together. As scribe, she would precisely transcribe and photograph significant interactions of their everyday life-after-life as Kenneth remained engaged and active in what was now their interdimensional marriage, and continued to show up in the lives of those he holds dear as well