Welcome
I’m a writer who is drawn to different genres and my work includes a memoir, an illustrated history and a children’s illustrated series. If you’re a reader or writer on your own journey and enjoy a good story, please visit the blog.
I’m a writer who is drawn to different genres and my work includes a memoir, an illustrated history and a children’s illustrated series. If you’re a reader or writer on your own journey and enjoy a good story, please visit the blog.

Critters Get The Last Laugh
Where I live, sandwiched between Route 66 and Sunset, it’s cars and concrete. Walk your dog off-leash, you’re asking for it. This isn’t the habitat that springs to mind when you’re talking wildlife. So imagine my surprise when our first week here, we woke to what sounded like someone dragging a carcass across the […]
Elephant Confinement
Flash back to Easter Sunday 1882. At Madison Square Garden in New York City, P.T. Barnum introduced Jumbo, a large African elephant, into his act. For the next 133 years, elephants became synonymous with the circus. Flash forward to May 1, 2016. After decades of protests by LCA and other groups, Ringling Bros. took a […]
Samantha
Within my heart is the dream of Samantha, where she will always remain because she died May 10, 1995 before I delivered her. And because she was stillborn and I never saw her eyes open or heard her take a breath or make a move, other than within me, you might think that I […]