Writer, mom. wife, sister, daughter, grandmother, taurus, avid reader and more. (Not necessarily listed in order of importance.) What I love about reading is being swept away to another place and time, and having my mind, heart and consciousness broadened. My goal as a writer is to create that same experience for my readers. Hopefully, that doesn't sound too lofty. 

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Writing is an experience of transporting to another dimension and blurring into another being. It's work, especially first creating a scene, but also fun and rewarding. I've found that if you create and develop characters well enough, they write their own story. Indeed, as the writer, I have sometimes planned on a scene going one way, but ... while writing it, the character brought it elsewhere. 

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I'm a native of southern Indiana (Newburgh) but for the last almost thirty years, Greensboro North Carolina has been home. I live with my husband Scott and our (often) pain-in-the-butt rescue, Gabby, and close to my daughters and their families including six fabulous grands, 3 granddaughters and 3 grandsons, all between the ages of one and eleven. Yep, weekends are noisy and chaotic at Nona and Pops ... which is usually the way we like it.