West Texas is my home. I speak the language and appreciate the benefits of small-town life, but I still love Austin. Texas mesas, long, orange sunsets, and friendly, slow-talking people captivate me.

 

I taught English for nineteen years at all levels, including college. I also worked as both an elementary and high school guidance counselor.

 

My husband, Jim, and I have four children, four adorable grandsons, and twin granddaughters. All are scattered around the country. Jim is a photographer, and many of the pictures in Women Behind Stained Glass are his work, as well as many of the pictures used on this site and social media.

 

I've written short stories, pieces for the local newspaper, a non-fiction book, and novels. Other projects are in the works. A big focus of late has been compiling World War II papers, letters, and memorabilia from my father's Army trunk. As a pilot in the Burma-China airlift, undertaken in part to prepare for the possibility of a land invasion of Japan from mainland China, my father received the Distinguished Flying Cross.

 

I read my stories to audiences and present on various aspects of writing. 

 

The Lark was the first novel in the Sulfur Gap Series, followed by Low Water Crossing. The third in the series, Between the Lies, is under construction at the moment. 

The books don't need to be read in any certain order, since they are not sequels, but rather emphasize different characters' lives in the fictional West Texas town of Sulfur Gap.