As a teacher, humane educator, and author I find joy in all that I do. 

Yup... joy is the right word for it.

My motivations for my Young adult books, "The Purple Hat Gang".. "Olivia Twist ... a quest for the glass half-full" ... "The Light and Dark Side of Seventeen" ... were to bring to mind to the reader that even in the darkest of situations there is light - IF you look in the right places.  These are stories of happiness, sorrow, triumph, and tragedy... all the drama a teen knows of personally, and more.