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  • Poetry and Watercolor Fun

    Poetry and Watercolor Fun

    With some supplies my daughter, the artist, sent me, I started painting watercolors. I have to admit I wasn’t very good at first, but I enjoyed doing it. I look forward to being able to sit down and paint every day. It’s very therapeutic. But I am first of all a writer so I started Read more

  • When Life Hurts

    When Life Hurts

    I love it when Facebook reminds you of important moments in your life. This moment popped up from five years ago. “The proof arrived in the mail! There is nothing like the feeling when you first hold a book you’ve been working on in your hand. All of a sudden it has gone from your Read more

  • Learning Love

    Learning Love

    I love this book! This was the first time my sister, Chris and I collaborated. It really details the ways in which we learned to our own broken and wounded hearts. We each took turns writing the chapters and my sister, who is an artist, helped a lot with the prompts in each chapter. The Read more

  • Watch Over Me

    Watch Over Me

    One day my husband left early to go fishing with my father and two of his friends out on Lake Erie. I didn’t expect him back until closer to dinner time, but when that time came and went I called my step-mom and asked if she had heard from them. She hadn’t. In fact, she Read more

  • Idyllily Wild

    Idyllily Wild

    Idyllily Wild is the most recent story I’ve been working on. I’ve been posting the chapters on Kindle Vella as I get them finished – https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0BNT4NHVX. The story follows the life of a young woman named Lily, who suddenly becomes an orphan and is left to the care of her uncle, whom she had never Read more