About Me

A mother of two young children in Central Florida, gardening is one of the LAST things I have time to do, but what started as a “victory garden” has become a favorite pastime.  No longer working outside the home, I spend my days driving through school drop-off and pick-up lanes, running errands, washing clothes, volunteering in the community and managing a household — visits to the garden have become my personal reprieve! 

Unless of course, it’s summertime.  Heat and humidity don’t do any favors for the vegetables, let alone my appearance, but then again, summers are for vacations.  Fall through late spring…  Now these are wonderful times to be outdoors, and the harvest from a productive garden is simply a bonus.  Not to mention it makes a great addition to the dinner plate.  While my kids may change their appetites on a daily basis, the two agree: a bean never tasted so good as the one they grew themselves! 

My other favorite pastime is writing novels, specifically women’s fiction, though I’d like it to become my next career.  Not that I’ll ever give up my day job as mother and wife, but I would like a more creative outlet than cooking and cleaning.  There’s only so many ways you can cook chicken before the family looks at you and asks, “Really?  You expect me to eat that?  I can’t hardly identify the thing, let alone rally an appetite!”  Changing laundry detergents doesn’t impress the husband, either. 

“My undershirt doesn’t smell clean.” 

I smile.  “I used a new brand.” 

He grunts.  “Something good for the planet?” 

I nod my head cheerfully. 

“Can we save it some other way?  I really don’t care to walk around smelling like funk.” 

“It’s lavender,” I corrected, but the point is made. 

So rather than dwell on my family’s lack of appreciation, I throw myself into writing.  A combination of romance and life lessons, my stories are meant to entertain and offer perspective on some of the most challenging issues facing women today. 

While a fan of the old adage “it’s not what you say, but how you say it,” I’ve found many times it is what you say that counts.  For that matter, what you do.  Each and every day. 

As a woman and mother of a daughter, I believe we women need to pull together, learn from each other, and brighten this path we call life by coloring it with our own beautiful, intricate, and individual blossoms of distinction.