When I turned 40 years old in 2004 I  finally realized what I was meant to be now that I was all grown up: a writer.  I studied writing in a two-year writing program offered by the Christian Writers Guild and also  began to blog as well as freelance.

I was raised in central Louisiana during my early years. Then my  family moved west  to settle down in Las Vegas,Nevada.

In my early twenties  I left the U.S.for the exciting city of Hong Kong where I lived for nearly seven years. I served as a Christian volunteer in an international mission organization teaching Vietnamese refugees. I also worked at a local television station in the news department. My husband and I returned to the States in 1992.

I currently work at an entry level job at a large hospital. I am also enrolled as  a Communications student at Marylhurst University.

My first book, Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church,  is due out from Civitas Press in November 2011.

I live with my husband Jerry and our two teenagers in a 1926 house on Lovely Street where I live a tattooed life in my rose garden.