I love stories! When our children were little I was the story lady during the morning church service. Years later, I was a volunteer storyteller at our local day care. And I taught English as a Second Language to adults with stories as a mainstay. Then our full-time ESL program closed, and a new door opened into the community of Scissortown and other places in Storyland . . . the worlds I’m exploring with my grandchildren, Tommy and Tina. But there’s something about Tommy and Tina that has changed the game a bit . . . . We make up stories together, based on fantasyland happenings with characters with Tommy’s and Tina’s personalities. Take Scissortown, home of the neatest and tidiest people anywhere. Enter the Slicers and Dicers, clumsy-looking creatures without a mean bone in their bodies, but OBC types who never met a pinking shear they didn't like. They wreak havoc in neat-and-tidy land until the grown-ups come up with a “solution”—and that creates another huge problem for everyone. Enter Tommy and Tina as I see them, in a make-believe town but with their real and fascinating personalities . . . .         

A book I edited won first place in the Writer's Digest Self-published Book Awards (Reference Category): "To Teach, To Learn, To Live: The Complete Diabetes Education Guide for Health Care Professionals" by Diane O'Grady, RN, BSN, CDE (Second Edition, 2006).