One of my earliest memories is riding with my sister to the local public library in the back of a little red wagon. Fresh from our baths, we were dressed in matching pajamas and red quilted robes. Just down the street from my childhood home, the library felt like a second home. By the time I was nine, my mother worked there.

I have always been a work in progress. I graduated from the University of Georgia with a BA in English, I worked in a private school, three different libraries, insurance and real estate appraisal offices, and had two children before returning to school for a Masters in Education and later, an Education Specialist degree in reading. I spent the next two decades teaching English in Georgia and Tennessee public schools.

Today, I am a retired teacher, a mother, grandmother, amateur artist, avid reader, life-long learner, and, if a woman ‘of a certain age’ can be such a thing, an emerging author.

I come from a long line of story tellers and often amused myself on long car rides “writing” stories in my head. A few years ago, I started writing things down.

My first two books are set in a fictional town of Belford, Tennessee, loosely based on the beautiful Sequatchie Valley, a place my father called home, a place where roots run deep and time seems to run at a different pace. I hope you enjoy reading about Belford as much as I enjoy writing about it.