Are you by any chance the author of this story:https://www.overdrive.com/media/5474292/dear-earthling that was featured in a Ladybug magazine way back in the day? or was that a different Ruth O'Neil? I only was able to track it down fairly recently and it seems fairly difficult to access in it's ebook forum, but it was a story that really stood out to me when my dad read it to me...