She lives in Kansas with her husband of over forty years, and two Shih Tzu dogs. She loves spending time with her three children and nine grandchildren. She mentors the F2K Free Writing Fiction class in Writer’s Village University and writes fiction, including YA novels and short stories, essays, and poetry, which she posts on her blog Living Fossil Images at http://livingfossilimages.blogspot.com/2010/09/living-fossil-images.html?spref=fb. She paints in watercolors and oils, and enjoys working in colored pencil.