I’m an author and radio host based in Vancouver, Washington. I believe that our environment has a role to play in who we are at any given time. As our environment changes (through choice or circumstance) it shapes us into something new.

Life is full of change. Most of us experience major changes even if we are born, raised and lived in one place the whole time. For me, that wasn’t the case. Born in Texas,  I lived most of my childhood in the northeast part of Idaho and Washington state.

After four years in the Navy, I spent the next 26 years as a nun in a cloistered monastery where I thrived for a long time until it didn’t seem to work for me in my older years. I left the monastery in 2010 and moved to Oregon and then in a few years met my future husband and moved to Vancouver, Washington.

Vancouver is a center point of Indigenous, European and American history. I found the perfect part time job working in a small bookstore at the Fort Vancouver National Historic site. It was here that my love of Vancouver grew as I became aware of the rich past, present and future threads of life in Southwest Washington.

In 2022 I wrote and published a local guidebook, Explore Vancouver Washington. Now three years later I am working on its second edition.

When I was in the monastery I started up and ran a small Catholic radio station. Radio was one of the things I deeply missed in my new life. In 2022 I discovered that I could host a radio show on KXRW.fm and so I started Northwest Book Talk.

At this time I also started the Northwest Book Fair.

Everything keeps growing and expanding as life changes. I am now months away from entering my seventies. I want to keep going with the radio and bookfair, but I also want to write fiction. I think that will be fun. I have experimented with in the past and I just might get serious now.

Stay tuned.