I am an author and writer!
My credits include (at present) teaching Creative Writing through the Continuing Education class for Senior Citizens at North West Tarrant County College in Ft Worth, Texas. I produce and contibute to printed Anthologies for the students and staff. During the Fall 2002 semester we had a wonderful 150 page Anthology which included poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

I've taught Computer classes for six years at the college and alternately taught Drawing and Genealogy, as well. My additional writing credits are:

My murder mystery called "Dead Men Don't Deal!" see the blurb on the right side of the screen, please Publish America in Fredrick, Maryland. It is available on line through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, books a million, Bookstop and most book websites, as well at most book stores by request or at the publishers online site.
In the process of being published is also a book of my poetry called "BOX OF MIXED CHOCOLATES", just released. Also in progress is a new murder mystery called, "The Gingerbread Man".

I have written an adventure novella called "The Borgia Affair" that concerns the theft of a rare Mexican antiquity; and A children's board book called "Captain Black Jack", a story about a cat that catches a hot air balloon and sees some fascinating sights.

I'm in the process of a mainstream generational epic called "Illusive Mexican Legacy" . A story of a Scot-Irish family that moves to Texas to begin a new life in the early 1900s. They are run out of Mexico by Pancho Villa and the heroine's goal is to try to regain their lost property in Mexico.

I'm a member of the Sister's in Crime a group dedicated to helping women and men writers in the Crime field, writers with woman heroines, as well as other types of woman writers. This organization was started by Sara Petretsky and includes other such famous authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Patricia Sprinkle, and Caroline Hart. My branch is part of this group and can be found at