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  As a child, I learned I could not control what happened to me. However, I could control my responses. This empowerment freed my spirit. Growing up in After I married my husband, Phil, our four daughters became the encouraging audiences for my ‘what if' stories told at bedtime. Today, I wonder how they slept so soundly. After getting the kids off to school, working in our lumberyard, cleaning, cooking, helping with homework, driving the daughters to their sports events, music, voice and dance lessons, there was time to be a Brownie, Girl Scout and 4-H Leader. At night when the world quieted, my stories evolved. I found inspiration in my family, our horses, dogs, cats and eventually more exotic animals, including a red fox, a great horned owl, tropical fish, a turtle, snakes, lizards and horned toads that came to live with us. The time arrived when the daughters went off to school, to careers and marriage. We sold the business and the horses and adopted a skunk. Now there was time to do something for me, so I returned to college. I loved the creativity of the theater. Theater make-up/masks lead to sculpture. It was in the clay that I discovered images of strange creatures, dragons and skulls. I tried to do things right, but the clay grew horns, fins, tails and fangs. In 1995, I moved to Today, I look in the mirror and see a woman seasoned with life's experiences. Inside, I've just begun to live unbound, free in my imagination. I have written countless short speculative stories. My novel, DRAGON'S MARK, is in the genre of dark fantasy, where three younglings grow to maturity among dragons and wizards, both good and evil, to do battle for the Earth at great sacrifice to all. The second book, DRAGON'S WAR, is started and the third novel, FYREGON, is outlined. These are not children's stories, for although they express the beauty of a magical world, they also contain cruelty and unspeakable evils.
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