If I could conjure my own Patronus it would be a heron. Once voted as most likely to star in a romantic comedy, people generally find me amusing and my laugh is the loudest you can hear in a movie theater. I love the ‘f’ word for its versatility, so you’ll find plenty of ‘f bombs’ on my site and in my blog, but never in my children’s books. (Just in case there’s a children’s book agent reading this; don’t panic.) I also love peanut butter and chocolate; books and bookstores; going to coffee shops and antique stores; stationery; baking; eating out; decorating; holidays; time with family and friends; board games and so much more. View the Face the Facts section or visit any of my other social media platforms and you’ll learn loads more about me.

I have a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Northeast Ohio Masters of Fine Arts Program and a number of book projects underway which you can read about in my In The Works section. Truthfully, my happy, spunky, and curious son is my most loved character and story in the making. You can read some of my other writing at League Lines Live, the Burlington VT Mom’s Blog and here, obviously, on my own blog Another. Blog.

Creating the life I want means spending the majority of my time doing something I love and am called to do, not spending the majority of my time wishing I did or wondering if I could. Dreams will only ever be dreams if you don’t do something about them. I’m only now getting off my ass to do something about my own. Having only recently decided to write under my own name, I offer the following advice to my fellow word-wielding friends and to anyone else trying to attain permission to be themselves (or go after their ‘big famous’): Be brave. Be You. It’s time.