About Me

BACKGROUND

I am a writer and retired editor, raised in Maryland and now living in western New York. My published work so far includes two books of poetry (plus a chapbook), a mystery novella, a book on parapsychology that is a combination of memoir & research, short stories, and brief memoir pieces. At the age of eight, I was inspired by Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to become a writer, and I slowly worked my way through college as a secretary (no loans!) in order to earn a B.A. in English. I worked the next three decades as an editor in academia or, during the years when my children were little, as a freelance editor, always writing on the side.

My books

Cleaning the Coincidence Closet: Exploring the Inexplicable (Spirited Muse Press, 2021). $17.

"A beautifully woven tapestry of personal experiences, philosophical musings, and scientific evidence. It illustrates in multiple ways that science and spirituality can co-exist and that trying to fully understand the world using one but not the other is like trying to understand a book by reading only the even-numbered pages." --Jessica Utts, Professor Emerita of Statistics, University of California, Irvine

"If you would like to know what scientists and seekers, from Rumi to Rhine to Sheldrake, have learned about the mysteries of mind at the edges of science, but you don't have 20 years to spend reading, this book is for you....She reaches far beyond her personal closet of coincidences to deep insight and wisdom." --Roger Nelson, Director, Global Consciousness Project, Princeton, NJ

Time & Tide: An Atlas for the Grieving [poetry chapbook] (Plain View Press, 2021). $10. This slim book crystallizes grief and transforms the horrors of 2020 into poetry. In doing so, it creates a brief historical and philosophical summary of a "saturnine cycle" we will never forget.

Mystery Gifts (Spirited Muse Press, 2018). $14. A "cozy" mystery set on the beautiful shores of Nova Scotia. (Kindle version $1.50)

Sixty-ish: Full Circle [poems] (Spirited Muse Press, 2017). $12. The 1960s and being 60, with a rhythmic interlude in between. "This collection is easy to read, but hard to put down." -- Sue Vogt, author of Dinosaur Parade.

Elemental [poems] (Plain View Press, 2010.) $14. Poems of earth, water, fire, air, and spirit--"an accessible must-read for all readers, from conventional poetic aficionados to those who wouldn't touch a rhyme scheme with a ten-foot pole." -- Sueann Wells, author of Before Dawn and Midnight Summons

PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS OR ANTHOLOGIES:

Fiction:

"Chelsea from Andromeda," Dash Literary Journal 11 (Spring 2018).
"Passing the Cookie," Imitation Fruit (online, Oct. 2015).
"Jackpot," Trajectory (Spring 2024).

Nonfiction:

"A Small Brown Bird," Evening Street Review 37 (Spring 2023).
"The Year I Saved Christmas," Toho Journal Online (Winter 2020).
"The Right Place at the Right Time," Iris Literary Journal 1 (Summer 2020).
"The Bomb & Me," Dash Literary Journal 13 (May 2020).
"Creepy and Clean: My Two Ghosts," Imitation Fruit Literary Journal 17 (online, 2019-20).
"Scaring My Father and Other Perils of the Mystical Path in Blue-Collar America," Clare Literary Magazine (online, Sept. 2013).
"Political Awakening, 1970" in Intrepid Travelers: Lowestoft Chronicles 2013 Anthology, ed. Nicholas Litchfield, 2013.
"A Mother's Snapshot: The Stairs, and "Rough Weather" in Motherly Musings, ed. Sueann Wells, 2011.
"Going Home," The Rambler (Nov./Dec. 2007).

Poetry: Too many to list. Most recent: "Observations in a Cape Cod Parking Lot," Tipton Poetry Journal 60 (Spring 2024); "Community" and "Blue Time" in The Kerf (Fall 2023); "Under Water" in Trajectory (Spring 2022); "The Point" in Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality & the Arts (Spring 2022); and "Pandemic Haiku," Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Presses (2021).