"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

 

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New book for 'tweens!  Release date: July 2009

Standard Publishing - ISBN 0784718652

Welcome to the writing side of my website. I'm a Pacific Northwest author and photographer who grew up in a small farming community in northern California (population 5,500 at its peak). I learned to read before kindergarten thanks to an older brother, who taught me letter sounds.  For "graduation," he presented me with a beat-up flashlight, his favorite third-grade reader, and this seasoned advice: "If you hear the hall floor squeak, dive under the covers. They'll think you're asleep." 

By sixth grade, I was so in love with books, it naturally evolved into a passion for creative writing. To prove that I meant business, I spent most of that year scribbling melodramatic stories that nobody ever read. I failed miserably at illustrating them, too, and tucked the collection away in a fat red binder for safekeeping.

The binder stayed hidden on my closet shelf and eventually ended up in a landfill east of town.

(P.S.  I'm still writing.)