I’ll be sharing both short pieces and parts of a memoir coming out soon here.

The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t

(For this season, I want to share a special gift with anyone reading this. It is a story of the amazing first Christmas my children and I spent together as a single parent family 30-some years ago. It was a lean year as I worked at the first job I could get and scrimped to save pennies while trying to give my children the kind of life a two-parent family could give them. The miracles of that first Christmas follow.

Habits

This piece, published in 2021 on Potato Soup Journal, now defunct, was a special piece for me. It’s my first published creative fiction in a long time, and it’s about one of my longest-standing non-blood-related relationships, my service dog Ace. He is one of my best friends.

Capitalizing on the Cute

This excerpt from my Master’s in Fine Arts thesis is about one of my earliest memories. In it, I share a small glimpse into what life in 1950s small town America was for people whose parents struggled to pay the bills. It was a different time from now and yet, for many, not that different from today’s struggles. A reading of a portion of its beginning (as well as a horrifying glimpse of me in 2022) is available at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDuRoYdi6Ek