: About Me

My degree is in Microbiology and chemistry.  I have continued to read and study medical journals throughout my teaching career.  I have abundant knowledge about medicine and microbiology.  My strength is explaining difficult information and putting it into something most people can understand easily.  I love helping people understand their own bodies and medical information.

Retiring from teaching High School Science and moving to a secluded ranch in Central Texas has freed me to write until I just can't stand it any more...I am still looking for that point and I do not really think I'll find it. I have been frustrated by lack of time to write. Many hours of driving teenagers to their sports and academic events across Texas have, in addition, bred multiple plot lines for novels and writing topics. These have made it quite clear that they will continue to bounce around my feeble, little brain until I put them on paper. Further, I lost my captive audience when I left teaching. So, I write for my mental health.
I may be slowed down a little by frequent requests from my husband to climb into the pit of the tractor and help him on the ranch. Besides, the Ninja act I do with a big stick to keep the cows out of the barn while my husband unloads feed is really good exercise.
My husband and I have one published book. The title is 'Weapon of Jihad' and it was published in 1999. It was supposed to be fiction, but on 9/11 parts of it became prophecy. I guess we based it on way too much fact. Researching the topic for the book, we could plainly see what could happen. We were attacked shortly after publication for writing a "paranoid, McCarthyistic" book by a radio host during an interview. We were told that nobody would dare attack the mighty United States. The book is about the use of Smallpox as a bioweapon. The main plot can still happen.

My passion is ...

writing fiction

I know too much about ...

ghosts

My parents always told me ...

be in by 10

My childhood ambition ...

astronaut

My favorite memory ...

going to Star Trek Conventions in Las Vegas

Why I write ...

driven

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

science fiction

My first job ...

model

My inspiration ...

God

Sciences > Medical Science (Other) Nursing chronicles: Stories from the heart

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I am not a nurse. I am a high school teacher who has taught many future nurses. I am also the mother of a nurse. My daughter, as it turns out, is a very strong person. We raised her on a ranch where she endured two older brothers and many episodes of ranch tragedy. These included abandoned baby goats and sheep that we desperately tried to save. Sometimes we were successful, but sometimes we were not. She witnessed the effects of coyote attacks, snake bites and bitter cold weather that struck shortly after shearing, killing much of the herd. It must have been this life that made her so stro...

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