MY FATHER'S BRANCHRuth Housman, playwright and storyteller, found herself years ago drifting towards poetry. She has been an avid poet ever since. An ardent bibliophile, loving books and especially little bookstores, Ruths fascination with the stories we tell, brought her to graduate with advanced degrees in speech therapy, and later, psychiatric social work. Ruth founded The Company of Writers, a writers haven in Cambridge, MA two doors away from The Plough and the