About Me

Creating…

Like many writers, I started writing as soon as I could put pencil to paper and before that I made up stories.

About Me

Creating…

Like many writers, I started writing as soon as I could put pencil to paper and before that I made up stories.

Storytelling

Everyone I met would be fodder for my fancy. I created the fictional backstory of people’s lives even those innocent bystanders who walked past me or I noticed out of the car window. As I would compose out loud, my brother would moan & groan as the stories grew more and more elaborate, and in his world of no escape from me, more and more annoying.

Past Projects

In 1985, I co-created the world’s first singing and talking teddy bear, Spinoza. I wrote six story tapes that he played from a cassette player in his tummy, with a speaker in his throat.
In 2000, I created J.S. Girls Club, with my daughter, being a teenager, at the time. We facilitated and enjoyed small group meetings building self-esteem through games and activities with over 100 girls who were members in the club.
In 2001, my son and I created Step into World Peace, bringing this program into schools.
In 2012, I wrote 4good4ever Journal Series:
Rite-of-Passage; Change for Good!
Cut ‘em or Keep ‘em; Building Healthy Relationships
21 Gifts for Christmas; My Most Meaningful Season, How we can Live what we Believe!
Key 4 Kismet; Find what you’re Looking for!
Best Birthday Ever!; What are the Unopened Gifts from your Birthday?
Happy Mother’s (every) Day!; Celebrating Rays of Sunshine about Mothers
In 2014, I self-published My 21-Day Rite-of-Passage Journal that is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.

Current Projects

I have now completed book one, A Couple and Complications, a romance novel, of my new Time Series. The book opens as Nick Bentley is preparing for his 40th birthday party with an unsettling surprise for his unsuspecting wife, Victoria. In the next five hours, the tragic malicious actions, including the rape of a virtuous young man by Victoria, leave Nick’s life and his hope for a newly met love shattered. The second book, Marriage Times Two, continues with the family over the next ten years. The final book, Forever Family completes the closing decade of the Bentley family.

I’m currently seeking agent representation for publishing my new novel, the Time Series and A Couple and Complications.

I’m fortunate, as many of us in Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Lakes, to live on a lake. My husband Brian and I live between Wayzata on Lake Minnetonka and cabin life on Sugar Lake in the summer. To escape the below windchill temperatures of Minnesota, we winter in Scottsdale, Arizona. We cherish the very noisy, messy and enervating visits with our adult children, grand kiddos and dogs! I can be found hiking, skiing, writing, painting or sipping mocha coffee at Starbucks.