I have a background in what is now called, "traditional communications." I spent most of these years working in the roles of public relations and publications director for both public and private educational institutions, with a swing through international business. I recently spent two years of my life involved in elementary school-level teaching. My goal at the end of the day was to teach kids how to think and how to write. I love to write. I love how the delicate winding of words can bring a reader into another realm and push the limits of their imagination. 

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I am an accomplished photographer. I learned the art of graphic and publication design before the ease of online publishing. I love public speaking and I look forward to hitting the circuit and meeting my readers.

 

And, before I forget, I am a trained cultural anthropologist. My understanding and study of human culture definitely directs my writing-for in some situations there are no gray areas. I hope my dash of Christianity and religious symbolism, sprinkled with social issues and morals, will lead my readers to, at the very least, some interesting thoughts and conversations.

 

A Few of My Favorite Books (in random order)

Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert (my absolute favorite, fun read)

Ride The Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson

Night of the Seventh Moon by Victoria Holt

1984 by George Orwell

Follow the River by James Alexander Thom

If God Should Choose by Kristen Stagg

Journey Across Tibet by Sorrel Wilby

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

The Almost Moon & The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

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