Here are summaries and reviews of my first four books. Later publications will have their own landing pages. A contemporary guide to surviving one of life's most difficult challenges, even when you seem to be total opposites. It's a "must have" for newlyw...

Seasons... To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under Heaven... A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance. --- Ecclesiastes 3:1 & 4 Surviving GriefI lost my husband of forty-one years to sarcoidosis, a...

Okay. So I'd written a marriage advice book and I'd written a memoir on bringing up my four sons. I still hadn't figured out the process to actually self-publish my books, so I went on to the next project. What next? I love a good story and many people pre...

Raising the Roses After I finished my first book, 7 Tips for a Successful Marriage, I quickly realized that this was not the kind of book I wanted to write. I love a good story, and while I had added some personal illustrations, this book was mainly an ex...

From 7 Tips to a Successful Marriage Introduction This is the introduction to my first book, 7 Tips for a Successful Marriage, published in 2012. I always knew I wanted to write after I retired from teaching, and when my husband asked me what I knew a lo...

Who doesn’t love a good love story? When I started writing in 2012, I began with a marriage advice book because that what’s I told my husband I knew a lot about. I followed the latest book marketing advice and organized it under an odd number of steps to s...

You have no idea how many people tell me that they want to write a book and they don't know where to start. Some say they have a story to tell, but they are not confident about their writing skill; they were never good in English. Still others see themselv...

How I Came to Be a Writer From as far back as I can remember, I have always loved words. I was an early talker. I even sang solos in church when I was four. Adopted by middle-aged parents, I spent hours entertaining myself with books and classic televisio...

This is the first chapter of my latest book, Seasons, My Journey through Grief. It chronicles my husband's battle with sarcoidosis and my own recovery after his death. It was also selected for the anthology, Rave Soup for the Writer's Soul, Volume 3, publi...

In honor of Mother's Day, I'd like to share a story about a childhood memory. My mother, like so many, took in a child that she didn't give birth to, and raised me as her own. This is for all the "Big Mamas" out there, who sacrificed what should have been...