I am the author of ten books of both fiction and non-fiction. During my career, I have written for: Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Modern Bride, Country Living, New Mexico Magazine, American Way, and newspapers such as the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, and USA Today. While at Mademoiselle, in New York City, I was assistant travel editor, and during a brief stint in Atlanta, I was the southeastern director of publicity for American International Pictures. I owned an award-winning advertising agency in Austin and was an advertising lecturer at the University of Texas. I won the Southwest Writers Workshop Storyteller Award for Best Novel for The Art of Murder and was awarded first place for nonfiction by the New Mexico Press Women for my book Mind Your Own Business. My work has appeared in Australian periodicals and been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese.

I’ve been a yoga practitioner for over 40 years, and in 2000 was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Subsequently, I wrote a feature article describing the benefits of Yoga for people with Parkinson’s which was presented in both the American and Chinese versions of Yoga Journal and received a rousing response from around the world. Inspired by that success, I wrote the book Yoga and Parkinson’s Disease which appeared on the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s recommended reading list and which the CEO of the National Parkinson’s Foundation called “a must read.” I attended the University of Missouri Journalism School and hold a degree in English and journalism from Indiana University. I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with my physicist husband David.

“My philosophy is to make the world a cheerier place. I think of my words as champagne bubbles spreading joy.”

“As a child of the 60s, I am still idealistic
and realize all my books are either humor
or teaching or both.”