Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, I spent my childhood summers at our family cabin in the San Juan Islands watching ferries pass, digging for clams, crafting collages with driftwood and shells, and fishing. I graduated from the University of Washington with an engineering degree. With three children from a first marriage, two from a second, and a business designing and building houses and landscapes, I keep busy.
I released my first story, Heaven’s Child, in July 2012. A memoir surrounding the sudden death of my 16-year-old-twin daughter, I crafted the story from five years of scribbled notes and jottings in journals so that my children could walk beside their mother during this epic period of trauma and growth. Heaven’s Child is a raw and real story that dares you to open your mind and your heart and inspires you to live life a little differently.
Today I live full-time with my family on Bainbridge Island, Washington, in Puget Sound watching the ferries pass to and from downtown Seattle. I claim inspiration from combing the beach for sea glass and treasures, running the island’s trails with my yellow lab, tending my perennial garden, skiing in the Cascade Mountains, reading good literature, traveling, biking and hiking, tennis, and writing. Besides exploring the intersection of religion and science, I have begun work on a second story, part memoir and part fiction based on my high school years at a boarding school in Southern California.
