As a retired university Professor Emeritus, I have numerous social science publications, including a book from Princeton University Press, and a co-authored book from Cambridge University Press (which won a national social science award).

During the last decade or so, I have completed online courses from the Creative Writing Program at the University of Iowa (my instructor said I was the best student she had in her five years in the Program) as well as the Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and the Writer’s Digest Workshop.

I have published nonfiction pieces in the Concho River Review, Kentucky Living, White County Heritage, Fifty Something, Museum of the American Military Family (website) and Louisville Magazine. I am a member of SouthWest Writers; their critique service has given me encouraging feedback on some of my previous nonfiction work, as well as the suggestion to undertake a novel—something I had never before considered. Gifts of Snowflakes is the result. I have greatly enjoyed writing it.