Welcome
My name is Lorraine Rominger and I’m thrilled to say that after working on my first book for years which was published in 2016, my memoir is being republished this year by Bookside Press.
The Rangity Tango Kids is a memoir about growing up on a farm in northern California in a large, German, Catholic farm family that has lived in Yolo County for five generations.
I was the oldest of 17 grandchildren, and one of the farm workers said all of us kids ran around the farm like a bunch of orangutans. He nicknamed us the Rangity Tango Kids.
Raised five miles north of the small agricultural community of Winters, the population was 1,500 when I was born. Winters has now grown to over 6,000 people and although there is a stoplight, more housing developments and specialty stores, it remains a simple place in a complex world. I'm thankful for that.
As much as I love living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I miss the farm, hanging out with my Dad, and going home on the weekends to ride around in Dad’s old pickup truck with him and his dog. Dad died in 2019, three years after my book was published for the first time and my life is not the same without him.