In 2004 I real­ized I wanted to do some­thing more with my writ­ing hobby.   I enrolled in an online  two-​​year writ­ing pro­gram and began sharp­en­ing my writ­ing skills as a blog­ger and a freelancer.

Writ­ing, for me, flows from the rich expe­ri­ences I’ve down­loaded through­out my life begin­ning from childhood.

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  vol­un­teer in an inter­na­tional mis­sion orga­ni­za­tion teach­ing Viet­namese refugees. I also worked at a local tele­vi­sion sta­tion in the news depart­ment. Hong Kong is where I met and mar­ried my hus­band (also Amer­i­can). We even­tu­ally left Asia and after liv­ing in Cal­i­for­nia for a short while, we set­tled down in Port­land, Oregon.

I cur­rently work at a large hos­pi­tal and have two teenagers with my hus­band Jerry.

My first book, Unla­dy­like: Resist­ing the Injus­tice of Inequal­ity in the Church, was released in Jan­u­ary 2012. A sam­ple chap­ter is avail­able at Amazon.

It is an excit­ing time to be a writer where a woman like me can live a reg­u­lar work­ing life as well as indulge a writer’s life.  I am happy to bal­ance cre­ativ­ity with fam­ily and work.  Writ­ing is just one pas­sion of many!