I am a North Carolina native. I grew up on a farm with my maternal grandmother, my electrician father, a stay-at-home mom, a brother, a sister and the family dogs.
The baby in the family, with six years between myself and my sister, I had to develop a big imagination early in life to keep myself entertained. Later on, that imagination fueled my stories.
I began to take writing seriously when I had my first creative writing class in junior high school. After that, I was hooked on writing for life.
For 21 years, I worked at my hometown, daily newspaper. For a few of those years, I wrote a humor column. In 2000, I became the paper's composition supervisor. In 2007, I left the newspaper and now freelance as a newspaper, magazine and book layout designer.
My full-length, self-published World War II-era novels were written with love as a tribute to a generation that is leaving us at the rate of 2,000 per day. My parents were a part of that generation. I offer these novels for sale with the hope that others will learn to appreciate and love that time period as much as I do.

THREE THINGS YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO KNOW ABOUT ME
1. When I first met my husband, he was a Civil War Reenactor. For a few years, I had a little side business making clothes for other reenactors.

2. For three years, I served as a lay pastor at a small rural church.
3. I'm a real computer geek. I've studied programming, several different software applications, and I can also open one up and work on the hardware, too.

MY LOVE
Some people say that the story of mine and Bryan's romance is unusual for two reasons.
To begin with, we both grew up in the same county, attended the same high school at the same time, continued to live our adult lives in our hometown but never met until we were 35-years-old.
The second reason it's unusual is that neither one of us had ever been married. Bryan's mother has said that it was as if we were just waiting for the right time and place to meet our true loves.
We met in May of 1994 when I took a job at the same company where he was working. I can't really say that it was love at first sight. Bryan and I took the friendship road to romance. Our breaks were scheduled simultaneously, and we began sitting together in the break room, talking and discovering that we had a lot of interests in common. We stayed "break room buddies" for the next five months until I took the initiative to ask him out to dinner for his birthday.
Even after we began dating, friendship was still the basis for our relationship. I can't tell you how many movies we missed seeing, because we would sit in the restaurant talking without realizing that the show time had passed.
We became engaged December 16, 1995, following a Christmas party at the Sunspree Resort in Wrightsville Beach, NC. Little did I know, he had brought with him to the party an engagement ring and intended to propose to me that night.
I remember vividly that it was a very chilly 36 degrees that night, and the wind was blowing around 20 miles per hour. So when he suggested that we take a walk along the beach, I asked him if he had lost his mind.
With a little coaxing, he managed to get me out to the beachfront gazebo, where he surprised me with the ring and a proposal.
Seven months later, on July 6, 1996, we were married in a small church cermony, surrounded by our closest friends and family.
After we were married he confessed something to me that he had never told me in all the months we had dated. Years earlier, he used to read my newspaper columns and wish that he could meet a girl like me.
Now, that's a man with a romantic soul and one I'm glad I waited for.