Words that arouse images, produce unexpected thoughts and stimulate bodily sensations seduce me like a relentless gaze above a flirtatious smile. During my safe, suburban childhood in Houston, Texas, I devoured books as I wished to devour life and adventures. From Junior High School on, I consumed a library book a day, secreting it behind whatever school textbook was big enough to conceal it. Decades later and half a continent away in California, with two children, numerous professions, and countless physical and emotional adventures to my credit, I gathered the courage to begin to write myself down.

After a term as President of the Sierra Writer’s club and a flurry of poetry and short fiction, I enrolled in New College of California to earn my BA in Humanities with emphasis in Creative Writing. My initial poetry chapbook, Inside Out: The Songs and Sighs of a Healing Human, first published in 1995, garnered rave revues and went through three printings. While at New College of California I authored a series of essays on “isms” – Classism, Sexism, Racism, Age-Youthism – that were featured in Evolving Woman. Shortly after graduation, I married my beloved Sean and enjoyed his support for my writing and the brief happiness that was interrupted by his stroke. My memoir evolved from the frantic journaling of the crisis years that followed and became the record of my spiritual evolution. Currently I am book editor for The Beachwood Voice, my short fiction is on-line at InPosse Review, Volume 17 and WebdelSol, an essay at www.openexchange.com, and new words -- ever in process – clamor for birth as the next piece.

May you resist the din of information overload so that each word that penetrates the still void of your inner being drips the pure honey of delight.