Welcome to my website, and thank you for visiting! Here you will find several different areas of my writing to explore and enjoy:
- Musings: thoughts, experiences and memories intertwined and included as the musings of daily life.
- Shorts: timed free writes based on prompts, usually funny, sometimes silly, and always off the top of my head.
- Works in Progress: updates on larger writings - my novel, personal essays for journal submissions, and miscellaneous pieces on which I am working.
- Childish Moments: stories for kids, or excerpts of stories for the younger crowd.
A story of family, friendship, belonging and what it means to be human, told from the unlikely point of view of a dog.
King, a scarred, mixed-breed dog with five different names under his collar, would never claim to be man’s best friend.
His humans haven’t all been friendly, and so far life’s been dominated by hunger, hurt and homelessness. King’s created laws for survival, like the essential Law #1: See Food, Eat Food. And when he’s saved from a desperate situation by Rose, a fellow hound with teardrop ears and a bark like gravy, he sticks by her side and decides to give up on humans altogether.
But a dog’s life is not his own, and when he and Rose are violently separated, King vows to find her, even if it means leaving the kind, patient human who’s just entered his life.
Join King in this heartwarming, thought-provoking novel on humanity, and experience the happy ending that all canines and humans alike deserve.
She’s driving to pick up a future she never wanted. When she gets there, it’s worse than she feared.
When her brother dies suddenly and she’s named legal guardian to three children she’s never met, Lita Bravo, a tattooed, thirty-two-year-old amateur mixed martial arts fighter, leaves her high desert home in Arizona to drive to California, a place from which she ran away years ago. Upon her arrival, she finds not only three grieving children but her estranged mother who has dementia and nowhere else to go.
For Jade McGovern, a serious twelve-year-old who’s had the same friends since kindergarten, life becomes unhinged when her parents die. Forced to move to a new state to live with a foul-mouthed, incompetent aunt, Jade decides to do anything she can to get back to California.
Evie Long, whose life, loves and libations have always come first, really wants a drink. She doesn’t recognize the daughter who ran away nearly twenty years ago and wonders when she’ll find her missing daughter.
As Evie falls deeper into her memories and Jade takes steps down a troublesome path, Lita struggles to parent and cope with a mother she never thought she’d see again. SHADOWS ON THE HEART, told from the perspective of three unique narrators, explores the bonds of family and friendship and the rippling impact of loss, grief and addiction across generations.