Welcome to my world!
I have been writing for decades. It began with scribbling little stories in lined, black and white composition notebooks at a very early age. As technology progressed, I advanced to manual typewriters, electric typewriter (after I learned how to turn the blasted thing on because the switch was below the keyboard!) and, finally, computer. I published a weekly neighborhood newsletter in my childhood (sometimes the few copies were handwritten) and I worked on my high school newspaper and yearbook staffs. I adored college English courses. Eventually, when I went out into the real world and was paid for my "way with words," I was responsible for advertising and promotional copy for a wholesale tour operator, community theater, needlework shop, and art gallery.
But those duties did not adequately fulfill my need to write creatively so in my free time, I continued to put my heart on paper because I couldn't not write. My fiction, articles, poems and essays have appeared in numerous online websites and newsletters; print magazines (including CH2 Magazine); and Hilton Head's daily print newspaper, The Island Packet.
I am thrilled and honored that editors at Island Writers' Network have selected my work for inclusion in three of their four anthologies; the newest (Hilton Head Island: Time and Tide) was released in November, 2015.
And one of my poems was chosen for the cancer poetry project 2.
But those duties did not adequately fulfill my need to write creatively so in my free time, I continued to put my heart on paper because I couldn't not write. My fiction, articles, poems and essays have appeared in numerous online websites and newsletters; print magazines (including CH2 Magazine); and Hilton Head's daily print newspaper, The Island Packet.
I am thrilled and honored that editors at Island Writers' Network have selected my work for inclusion in three of their four anthologies; the newest (Hilton Head Island: Time and Tide) was released in November, 2015.
And one of my poems was chosen for the cancer poetry project 2.
Pat Conroy wrote: "The English language is alive and well on Hilton Head Island. This book proves it."
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