I am the adoptive mom to a beautiful 7 year old daughter from China. I wanted to write a book dedicated to my daughter to help her and other children adopted from China understand why their birth families were not able to keep them but yet loved them. I also wanted the nonadopted child to…
I have always loved to write, even as a youngster. The opportunity to create poetry or write stories was a big part of my junior high and high school years. Life takes us on many detours, as I have been rerouted on my journey as an author. I must admit that timing was the inspiration…
In May of 1999 I had the good fortune of being hired as a pilot for a major airline. I was a happy camper. Flying for a major airline had been a goal of mine ever since I first started flying. My initial training included several weeks of ground school followed by a full week…
Miracles happen. I’ve seen prayers answered, inexplicably and incontrovertibly. The little kid healed from cancer. Groceries materializing on the doorstep of an out-of-work mother and her three hungry kids. Footsteps in a hallway that stopped my friend’s abusive husband from following through on his threat to kill her. And yet, when I became Catholic, and…
Writing my first book Embittered Justice was what some would call a labor of love. Inspiration for the book started when I had the personal misfortune of spending time in a court room. I listened carefully as cases were presented and the fates of defendants were left in the hands of the defense, prosecution and…
James Thurber used to tell a great story about himself. He’d be standing at a party, I guess staring off into space, and his wife would say to him, “Damn it, Thurber, stop writing!” I can relate. For almost two decades, I was writing a book, and didn’t know it. It started back in Journalism…
Emotionless Souls, my new short story collection published by Brown Paper Publishing, contains twenty stories of troubled characters finding themselves in dark places and fighting to redeem themselves in unconventional ways. Short stories White Christmas, Gag, Tease, Inc. and Boardroom Romance are a few of many using a corporate environment as a back drop for…
• More than 200 women kill their children in the United States each year. • Homicide is the leading cause of death for children under four. • Eleven women are on death row in the United States for killing their children These statistics, which I learned about through a news article from the American Anthropological…
To my mother who left this realm 35 years ago and to all mothers still sticking it out and trying the best they can to become the most wonderful mothers in the world… Happy Mother’s Day!
There has to be a better way. That’s what I thought to myself for years when reading all manner of strange and sundry articles about assorted upheavals, unrest and turmoil around the globe. Isn’t there somewhere where people are naturally in harmony with their environment and with the creatures around them? The concepts of naturalness,…
The Story Behind the Book 