I’ve loved to write since childhood. Creative writing kept me from getting bored in school. But then I became fascinated with how the brain works and veered away from writing to teach kids with learning disabilities and many other life situations that complicate the educational process.
After many years, I left the classroom to tutor individual students from middle school and high school. My card read, “Get that Homework Done and Still be Smiling at Each other over Dinner!” One of the main things I did was help students get started on their essays. After a while, I became jealous because they got to write and I didn’t. So I swerved back to writing on my own.
Always the idealist after so many years in the serious business of trying to help kids and their parents, and feeling concern for the world, how we live our daily lives and how we choose our value systems, I have written many nonfiction pieces on all of the above, a few humorous pieces, and have a memoir in progress. I had never entertained the idea of writing fiction.
But then I joined a writer’s group that met in the back of an independent bookstore after closing time. In this light-hearted group, I fell in love with fiction. Soon after, I took a fiction writing workshop, and the adventure of writing a novel began. Some have described The Dream Loom as metaphysical, compassionate, and healing, with some delightful moments, too. I had a ton of fun writing it.