I loved growing up in the mountains of Pennsylvania where everyone farmed or gardened and some still held on to old-style farming methods: horses and wagons etc. I remember the feed mill, grocery trucks that made housecalls and picking wild strawberries. It was almost like another century. Then we started to move: Painted Post, NY; Montrose,PA; Camp Hill, PA. I went to an ultra-conservative, religious college in Houghton, NY and then married my first husband. Again we moved: Scotia, NY; Denver, CO; Selinsgrove, PA; Santa Fe, NM. Eventually I divorced and moved to El Paso, TX, the setting for Dancing on the Mountain.After 20 years in Sherman, I moved back to El Paso where I live with my second husband and cat. Besides writing, I spend time with kids and grands, master naturalists, and exercise at the local YMCA.   

I've tried many occupations from waitressing to get through college, working as a secretary, managing a million-dollar money room and teaching. Now I'm a student, a master-gardener, master naturalist, writer and grandmother.