I am a published author who also works in partnership (owner/operator)with my husband on our family farm. The farm itself has belonged to and consecutively farmed by my husband's family for over 100 years. We have two grown (married) sons and two grandchildren.

I've had articles and poems published in national magazines or the internet over the years while I worked as a freelance writer publishing a wide variety of subjects--from historical and religious topics to sales descriptions and personal-feature writing, some poetry, and my autobiography.

Dino Godzilla and the Pigs (My Life on our Missouri Hog Farm) was published in 1993 by SoHo Press. It is a serious recounting of our life during the years we were raising our sons and managing a productive 200-sow hog operation. These days, life is a bit different as our sons no longer live on the farm and we now raise Angus cattle instead of hogs.

I have also been a member of the Heartland Writers Guild since before 'Dino' was published and served as newsletter editor of the Guild's monthly newsletter, The Heartland Journal, from 2002 through 2015.

My Romantic Suspense Fiction E-novel PIGEON IN A SNARE was officially released By AKW e-books on May 16, 2014. AKW also released ROSES FOR THE SPARROW on Oct. 3, 2014.

#3 of the Birds in Peril Series "PLIGHT OF THE WREN was officially released Aug. 15, 2015 under 'mefOriginals'. #4 "Robin Unaware" was officially released Jan. 1, 2016.

The fall of 2017, I published The Sweet Pea Trilogy. The Demise of Innocence: Sweet Pea I, Sept.3,2017. Time to Deceive: Sweet Pea II, published October 2017 and The Price of Passion, Sweet Pea III, published November 30, 2017.

I took a short breather over the holidays and decided the Sweet Pea story really should be under one cover so all three books of the trilogy were published as a Valentines' Day gift set in Feb. 2018.

The Sweet Pea Trilogy is now also available in paperback.

Shattered Image was published in Dec. 2020 both as an ebook and paperback. Another romantic suspense set in mid-Missouri, it is totally unrelated to anything I've previously written.

The Birds in Peril Series was published by the end of 2023 (#5Wise Bold Eagle and #6Bluebird of Happiness).