In a nutshell...


*** Avid reader of picture books, cookbooks, and adult mysteries.
(A junkie of Louise Penny's Armand Gamache series, Paul Doiron's Mike Bowditch series and William Kent Kreuger's Cork O'Connor series.)

*** Writer of picture book stories filled with facts, humor, and amazing animals.

*** Active member of SCBWI and Inked Voices.

*** Total bird-nerd with a gazillion feeders in the backyard and native plants to boot.

*** Wife to a man who has been my friend for over 30 years.
Mom to a son I couldn't be prouder of. (And lives way too far away.)
Mother-in-law to an amazing young woman.
MeMaw to two excellent boys.
Slave to Quiggley our pet cockatiel. 

*** A doodler of watercolor paints, colored pencils, markers, and frosting.

*** Rooter for the West Michigan Whitecaps and Detroit Lions.




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