I am embarking on a second opportunity to pursue the writing career I have always wanted. The religious organization I was engaged with in 1990 requested that I write  Revelations. The book was well received and brought many compliments. After Revelations, despite the overload of other publishing, writing and Christian duties, I continued to write stories that found a readership within the realm of the institutions where I worked and lived in Florida. Pastors, teachers and church librarians in Florida, Missouri and Kentucky used some of the books as teaching tools with church youth. 

A few years after my relationship with the publishing entity discontinued, my marriage also ended. I walked away from those years with only the books I had written and three cats that I had grown to love. Even though I plan to move on to a new freedom and different avenues in my writing, it didn’t feel right to set aside the stories I had written. They exemplify Christian living and witnessing, and two of them are fictional commentaries on important topics of that time, like Y2K, the troubles in Northern Island and human cloning. I am excited to find a place for these books and stories on Amazon.com with Kindle eBooks.

As a teenager, I attended modeling classes at the Blackthorn School of Modeling in Lake Worth, Florida. A few years later, I graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a Bachelor of Arts where I studied film and journalism. I spent time off and on working in South Florida in the modeling industry as an administrative assistant, a casting agent and an acting teacher. Once I married, I worked in publishing doing writing, editing, print and layout with religious institutions in Florida and California.

I now live in Florida with four cats, Patch, Tiger, Shadow and Jellybean. I guess you could say I got custody of Patch, Tiger and Shadow in the divorce. I simply could not bring myself to abandon them, although I rejected the idea of having any kind of pets in the first place. I have now become an advocate of No Kill Shelters.

None of the cats were happy when Lilliputian stayed with us until we could find her a home. And their noses were really out of joint when Jellybean, who seemed to be living in the vacant lot across the street, moved into the driveway, then the garage and eventually into the house as part of the family. We consulted experts who suggested time out and a spray water bottle to convince Shadow we all needed to live in harmony. I never believed we’d reach any level of accord, but we did. Occasionally cat hair flies and fights and chases break out, but all in all, we’re a family now.

You can meet Patch, Tiger, Shadow and Jellybean and find out how these little cats came to be a family in Florida @ www.pawsfortheword.com.  They all have interesting stories to tell.

Other sites are:

www.thebarefootjesus.com  - about the dangers of indoctrination and control in religion, with some spiritual commentary and poetry.       

www.eatoutofthemiddleofthepie.com  – about becoming and living single in the midlife years.

Thanks for reviewing my books, and thanks to Amazon.com and the Kindle eBook team for their excellent efforts in the world of publishing and promoting authors and projects like mine.