: About Me

I'm blessed to be a stay-at-home mom of 2 boys and 1 baby girl and I have an insatiable lust for the written word. I love history, art, and research and am only a few credits away from graduating with an honor's degree in humanities. I love the outdoors, all animals, and am involved in animal rescue. I'm also an advocate for literacy and volunteer as an ESL tutor.

I'm a passionate word weaver and I constantly strive to let my reader see, feel, and smell what my character is experiencing. I love to play with words and think of ways to say things like they've never been said. I paint pictures, not only with paint, but also with my words. I love to play the guitar and I love to use words to describe music so that my reader can not only hear it, but feel it.

I've been a writer for 10+ years with experience in family research and historical research. I have several published short stories and poems. I won 1st place, the 1997 Walter Prescott Webb Award, for a research paper about the early Spanish Mission Nuestra Senora de la Luz and El Orcoquisa near the Trinity River in Texas in the in the Texas State Historical Manuscript Competition and my paper was published.

I am presently working on 2 novels and co-editing short stories and articles for local newspaper publication.

My passion is ...

weaving words to let you feel what I'm thinking.

I know too much about ...

pinching pennies.

My parents always told me ...

never tell a lie.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a singer.

My favorite memory ...

Christmas with my parents.

Why I write ...

because if I don't I will explode!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Dean Koontz, reality TV, Dr. Hook.

My first job ...

selling lemonade, even though I can't stand it!

My best moment ...

when I did "the right thing" and no one knew it but me & God.

My inspiration ...

first it was my parents and now it is my children.

Health & Fitness > General Health (Other) Causes of hypothermia in humans

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If your internal, or core, body temperature drops below 95 degrees Fahrenheit, you are suffering from a condition called hypothermia. It is the opposite of having a fever, when your body heat is too high. Our body’s normal temperature is usually about 98.7 degrees F. The body maintains this balance by producing more heat when the temperature around us falls below our body temperature. If we cannot produce heat fast enough, we risk becoming hypothermic. Just as there are several reasons we get fevers, there are a number of causes of hypothermia in humans. ♦ Our Internal Thermost...

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