Hello, welcome to my online home. Award winning columnist and journalist. First Place for Column Writing in the 2017 Professional Keystone Press Awards. Click on the links to learn more about what I am all about and read some of my work. People and penguins are always welcome. I am a lifetime student of the writing craft. Every time my fingers touch the keyboard my childhood dreams come true and those I dare to dream maybe just maybe are a bit closer.

Dramatic Confessions of a Training Teen. Friday, July 8, 2011. When we lined up for the start of a race, my female team mates and I used to joke about it. Would we race as well as we had hoped? One phone call changed everyth.