Taking this step is exciting for me. 

I have wanted to write since high school when a teacher encouraged me to become an author. 

 Although i was born in California, i was raised in the South, moving here when i was three years old. I am married. We have three children and six grandchildren,  I have volunteered for everything under the sun.  I have worked in the arts, have been involved in politics, have owned my own business and have been in municipal government  management.