When I was a little girl I began creating stories before I learned to read. My grandfather would type them up for me, send them out and we collected rejection slips which I valued as others value Blue Ribbons because they reminded me I had finished a story and mailed it out. I read every copy we had of The Book of Knowledge. My favorite novels were "Little Women" and "Alice in Wonderland." But I read every book in my Grandfather's library whether or not I could understand them. I fell in love with Shakespeare and read all his plays. My class mates teased me and called me "Shakey," in honor of my favorite playwright. I loved movies, especially those with Margaret O'Brien, June Allyson and all the musicals. Every time my sisters and brothers and I would watch a movie, I would direct them in performing it over and over. When I was in the 6th grade I wrote a play, Song of Slop Hallow, based on our town and my classmates performed it. My Grandmother Brown asked me to write her lifestory and she dictated it to me when I was in high school. At Ohio University I majored in Creative Writing and was editor of Sphere, the literary magazine. I won a prize from the French government for an autobiographical novel written in French, Une Annee a Paris. For several years I wrote articles for national and international magazines such as Catholic Digest, Christian Science Monitor, Reader's Digest, Look and Mother Earth News. Then I decided what I really wanted to do was write books and I have been writing books ever since.

Valedictorian at Waverly High, Phi Beta Kappa at Ohio University, BA in Creative Writing & Romance Languages, Fribourg scholarship to study at the Sorbonne, Superieur degree. San Diego Award Committee certificate of excellence for my book Mother Teresa, Called to Love and for Alexandria(Co-author Patricia Walden), Tied for first place in Unpublished Memoirs with Autobiography of a Marriage (co-author Lennox Raphael) Published ubder the title "Garden Of Hope, Autobiography Of A Marrage".