I am the proud mother of 3 energetic children, ages 8 through 21. I also tend to collect additional children the way most people collect stray cats. Of late, I have the cats as well.

My passion has been writing since I could hold a pencil. Yes, I know that is a cliche'. As a young woman, I learned to program and discovered that I have a talent for helping people and computers learn to work together and play nice. When I'm not playing with my daughter, writing, or designing for the internet, I can be found in the kitchen or wandering our local beaches.

I graduated from Santa Clara University many years ago with a BA in English/Creative Writing, a Minor in Anthropology and a Minor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I wanted to be a writer, but I knew I would need other skills, so I followed my interests.

After school, I worked as a programmer, a pre-school teacher, a tour-guide, a planner and even for NASA. I left the working world to follow my calling to motherhood, and have devoted my free-time to learning how to write.

You'd think I would have learned how to write in college, but I actually learned from Margie Lawson and the best writers' group in the world at SectionSixx.