About Me

They say I need to talk about me... hmmm... where to begin?

I'm a small town girl who lives in Texas, the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, to be exact. I wasn't born in Texas, the saying goes, but I got here as fast as I could. I love it, the wide open spaces, the beauty, who could ask for more.

I have two wonderful children, Matthew and Samantha, ages 15 and 13 respectively. Sam is going to be a doctor, a lawyer, a writer(honestly she writes more than I do, and all the children wait reverently for each installment. She has books chock full of writings). Oh she's also going to be a pianist, she is excellent, and an international jetsetter (she is studying 3 languages now).

Matthew is going to be a video game designer and he works diligently on his craft for several hours a day.

My favorite movies are Sleepless in Seattle, and the Matrix. Ha! How is that for a combination?

I am an amateur, and I stress amateur, wine collector. I also collect chess sets and movies.

My favorite dish is phõ, which is a Vietnamese soup.

I like plays, movies, reading, writing, and other people's cooking.

My favorite songs are Cece Winans' Alabaster Box, and just about anything by Avalon, but specifically Can't Live a Day.

My favorite subject-God. I can think of no better subject in the universe. To look at me, people would not know that there were days that I had to thank God for my next breath...days when all I could do was lay in my bed or fall on my knees and cry out for strength...Days when the only thing standing between me and certain failure was the grace and the mercy of God. That's why I love Him so.

I like to tell people...if you don't know what to say...if you don't know how to pray...worship.

There were and still are a lot of things that confuse me about this whole Christian experience, but when I worship Him, it all becomes clear.

That is why my books are not focused on the techniques of spirituality, but on the promise of grace. I write them to show one thing. The love of God.

Because for me, I believe that all the doors separating religion, all the hindrances associated with denominationalism, and the miscommunication and misinformation about what people see in Christians, will fall in only one way - By showing the Love and the Mercy of God to a hurting, dying world.

That's what has gotten me through, and to be honest, I've lived a life most people would not believe. But in so doing, I've also been shown a grace that many have not received.

P.S. I am working on my second book now. It is about a girl, from the wrong side of the tracks, that is rejected then humiliated by the man she loves. She is determined to show them wrong and becomes a world recognized publisher and humanitarian. But she still can't seem to get it right in her relationships.

One man finally finds the courage to break through the barriers that she has erected around her life, and she realizes that she wants to love again. But to truly begin a future she must first close the doors to her past and all the hurts there. She makes the journey home to confront herself, and in so doing realizes that she can be truly Fit For A King.

I am also working on a book of poetry. The working title is Poems for the Healing Heart.