Hello! And welcome to my site.

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As a young girl, I loved perusing my grandmother’s glass front book cabinet to read some of every book on the shelves plus my grandmother’s own poetry and writing. All during my career as an educator, writing devotionally was always in the back of my mind.

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Growing up on a dairy farm in Northwest Missouri, I've appreciated both small town atmosphere and suburban living during my entire teaching career in the North Kansas City School District. I'm able to relate well as I speak across Missouri and Kansas to both rural and urban people. When you read my writing, I want you to feel you are sitting with me visiting in my living room.

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Currently, I serve on the board of Heart of America Christian Writers Network as membership chair and write two monthly columns for The Write Connection, HACWN’s monthly newsletter. My latest published story after my book, Strength for the Sadness, is published in Guidepost’s Divine Interventions—Heartwarming Stories of Answered Prayers.

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I lead women’s Bible studies at my church, serve on the church Hospitality team, and am the mother of two adult children, one super son-in-law, one dear daughter-in-law and you might want to ask about my five grandchildren—who have become teenagers and a pre-teen nearly overnight.

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I hold both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Family Life Education. Taught more than 2500 juniors and seniors Marriage and the Family in the public high school and taught Clothing Construction and Fashion Merchandising for eighteen years.

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