About 

I live in Vancouver, Canada, where I spent my childhood playing in forests, creeks, mountains, and oceans – when I wasn’t buried in a book.

I’m doing my best to spend adulthood doing pretty much the same thing, although as a grown up I can often claim that grubbing in the dirt is important volunteer work, and I share my reading joys with two book groups. 

I have always been a writer.  Letters, journals, lists, and for a long time, factual and well written consultant reports.  When my child was in elementary school, I started volunteering as a reading tutor.  Playing with words and finding creative strategies to help children learn to read is so much fun that I was inspired to write much shorter, sillier stuff.  So now I write children’s stories. 

My secret success: I have achieved acclaim as the creator and writer of the LOO program – Learning Opportunities in the Outhouse.  My captive audience enjoys and appreciates the annual series of natural science topics and fun facts that decorate the outhouses at a small rustic campground where I camp every summer.