About Me

Welcome, first and foremost. This is my little corner of the internet, that I'm slowly but surely carving out, piece by piece, until it somewhat resembles me. Now if only I could get that cup of delicious-looking tea up there...

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I first started writing when I was a little kid. I had a wild imagination, as my poor mother can attest to, and I would draw pictures with splatters of felt-tipped marker in red (which I would then tell her was "bloody wolf prints", much to her chagrin), making up stories about the people who were nowhere to be seen in my avant-garde images. It was clear, even at the tender young age of 3, that while my talent for drawing was definitely...lacking...my talent for storytelling was not. 

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Once I was able to write, I was off like a herd of trumpeting elephants. I would write stories CONSTANTLY. I still do, to be fair, and that's over 30 years later. I have always loved the idea of how tragedy and comedy can play off each other, how they can be intertwined to form something beautiful in the end (with, perhaps, a dash of irony thrown in for good measure.)

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I have a couple of books published and am working on several new projects currently. Because of my struggles with mental illness (I have PTSD, schizoaffective disorder-bipolar type, and ADHD), I have found that writing has become a haven for me--an escape from my mind. I write to purge my emotions, which is why my writing tends to be emotional. 

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I currently live in Nevada, up in the mountains, where my mother and I always used to dream of living. I have lived all over the US, and this is where I love it the most. I will say this, however. Growing up in California, I never understood why people would say happily, "It's hot, but at least it's a dry heat." I didn't understand that until I lived in both South Dakota and western New York. I know humidity now. I prefer the "dry heat." ;)