I am a poet, author and educator. Over my 30 year career as a writer, my numerous articles, stories and poems have appeared in books, small presses, magazines, professional journals and online resources. Most recently, my poem Root Cellar appeared in the Portland Press Herald’s weekly poetry column “Deep Water” (2023) and Be a Firefly, was read on Maine Public radio’s “Poems From Here” (2025). Both appear in my collection Solstice.

Solstice is my third and most recent collection of poetry (2024), preceded by Tiny Sabbath (2010) and Teacher, I Honor You (2016) published by Finishing Line Press.  

I am also the author of the booklets Supporting Children and Teens Through Grief and Loss (a guide for parents; a guide for schools. 1999: Center For Grieving Children, Portland, Maine) published during my years in the grief field and Calm and Alert: Yoga and Mindfulness Practices to Teach Self-Regulation and Social Skills to Children (2018: PESI Publishing) my legacy from a long career as a school counselor and yoga teacher. 

In all of my writing, I have always wished to help and inspire people to live optimally and resiliently. After decades counseling, teaching and writing poetry and nonfiction, I want to help people, now, through fiction. I am currently working on a novel entitled Topia. It is a story set in a public elementary school in the fictional Maine town of Portage Point, Maine, 2025. It is a tender story about how small places, full of ordinary people, can hold the seeds of great change and hope for the future.  I cannot think of anything more important for our times. 

I am so grateful to be a parent and grandparent and live in Midcoast Maine with my husband Bruce of 43 years.