The first thing I'd like to share about myself is that I love to create, I need to challenge myself constantly. So besides writing, my other project is designing hand-crafted jewelry pieces, which I enjoy, and sell at local craft shows, and recently launched my Jewelry on line. *So if interested check out my website:  *www.love2create.online

         I fine it hard to call myself an author, but I truly enjoy writing my stories and thought others would enjoy them too. I live In Tennessee in a small town where we can see the Beautiful Mountain Range. I am happily married to my husband of 32 years now, and I'm so thankful for this wonderful man who has always given me the time I needed to work on my projects.     

         To begin, I started writing poetry and short stories in my twenties, and I began thinking it wouldn't be much of a jump to start writing my stories with the thought of turning them into books. Then in the year 2014 I got serious and began with an idea of a short story for a children's book. But after the first few books, I figured they would be my last. Ha, Ha, says the little voice in my head. Because I know myself, and writing has always been meaningful to me and helped me understand and work out many inner thoughts and feelings just by writing them down.

         So back to my story-writing, it wasn't long before I began thinking of another idea for a book, which almost seemed to write itself. But in reality, it was easy because it was about my eight Persians and Himalayan family of cats, which I ended up with the title of:  Eight Of My Friends Wear Fur Coats: It has Beautiful photos and stories of each one.  Feline lovers will love this book.     

                                                                               

 On A More Serious Note:

       My latest and sixth book might explain my decision to write about my health issues. I have a disease called Trigeminal Neuralgia, and I was diagnosed in 2016. It's considered a rare disease with no cure. It's such an excruciating pain with shock-like exploding pains that strikes along one side of your face and up in your head. My health issue became worse in 2019. That is when my husband, Kenny, encouraged me to start a Journal, which I started writing but couldn't finish.

      Forwarding to the year 2023, I began thinking about that journal I started three years ago, and just like that, I started writing again. Although remembering how bad it was for me and writing about it was pretty hard. But reading about others in my support group who had it pretty bad too, made my heart ached for them as I understood all-too-well what they were going through. This is when I decided to mention the suffers of TN on my dedication page of my journal.   

     P.S.  To be quite honest, I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested in reading about my journey into hell, but I decided to published my journal anyways, as I felt I wanted to make others aware of this horrible disease.   My Sixth Book, It's All In My Head.