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Welcome to my website and thank you for stopping by! There has always been a writer in me screaming to get out, and like so many who feel that yank, it had to stay in the cocoon longer than I would have liked.  The kids are raised, retirement from a lifetime of teaching is on the horizon, and it is time to spread my wings.  Almost ten years ago I challenged myself to write a story every week and publish it to a blog site.  While I am working on my first book, I will revive some of those stories and include some new ones here.  My love is memoir: a slice of quirky truth from someone’s life, whether hilarious or horrendous.

I am an oxymoron.  It all began almost 60 years ago, when I was born a Gemini–The Twins.  My mother found significance in that fact and the fact that as a child, I had so much dark hair on my back.  It prompted her to ask my pediatrician why?  Being too young to remember what the doctor actually said, I can only quote my mother: “She is schizophrenic–she has a split personality.”  Can you just hear that conversation?  I proudly told all my friends and their parents what the doctor supposedly said.  I was always quick to add, “If I had one more hair, I’d be hanging in the trees with the monkeys.”  I never once saw them roll their eyes.

While I have never been clinically diagnosed with Schizophrenia, my husband and children would probably agree there is some truth in it.  I’m still afraid to look at a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5), afraid a back covered in hair truly is worthy of a diagnosis of Schizophrenia.

Perhaps more significant, I teach oxymorons (figurative language, not students).  Students think I’m insulting them when I use the term, but I actually love my students . . . I really do, and they are the ones who have to put up with my “split and oxymoronic personality” on a daily basis. They are also most responsible for my first book, a paranormal memoir, for listening intently to my freakish, but true stories and encouraging me to write about them.

So (I HATE how it has become a trend to begin interview responses with this filler, this time-buyer, before answering), the answers to those burning questions–Am I still hairy and do I shave my back every day?  No, I moulted my pelage somewhere before or during puberty.  I now have wings, but I will interchange humorous and serious stories every week.  So please like, follow, share, and come back here often and leave your email for my first book’s release.