My Story

I spent my first nine years on a small dairy farm on a dirt road, with no neighbors in sight. One summer’s evening I watched an auctioneer sell off all our cows and equipment, and we began to move. I attended four different elementary schools before we settled in suburbia, and experienced a childhood trauma along the way.
My sister and I were in our thirties when she suffered severe, permanent brain damage. Both my trauma and her injuries fuel the emotions and drive the events of this memoir.
I have been a catalog copy writer for Montgomery Ward, a stay-at-home mom, a System Tester at AT&T, a process designer at Lucent, an ISO quality assurance auditor at Avaya, and an English teacher at the high school and community college levels. 
Today I live with my husband in New Jersey, not far from our daughters and our grandchildren.

My poetry has been published in  New Jersey Bards Poetry Review 2022, I Don’t Cry Anymore, and  Rhyme and Punishment NY, NJ, CT.