I’m a Mississippi born and raised transplant to the Northwest. I’m thrilled to be alive and walking around after a less than healthy life as a teen and young woman, and I appreciate the material those years provided when I got whacked, in my mid-thirties, with the overwhelming desire to write. My essays have been published in Gray’s Sporting Journal, The Rambler, The Alembic, Dislocate, and Big Muddy. My memoir, “Catching On—Love with an Avid Flyfisher” won the Jim Angell Award. My novel in process is still in process. Sigh. I’m a blessed wife and a smitten grandmother. I’m not planning on leaving this world anytime real soon, and till I do, I got lots of people to love and a boatload of stuff to do.