📚 Welcome to My Bookshelf

I am a retired teacher, writer, mother of three, grandmother of four, and Gold Star mother living in rural Maine with my wire-haired dachshunds, Turbo and Tracker.

My writing is organized into shelves, much like the physical bookshelves in my home. I write slowly, revise carefully, and believe that serious questions deserve more than one answer. My work blends disciplines and forms—legal reasoning alongside chaos theory, Swiftian satire alongside education policy, and episodic fiction alongside reflective essays. I am especially interested in how complex systems present themselves as rational, neutral, or inevitable, even as they produce profoundly human consequences.

📁 Current Shelves & Chapters

The Things I Lost: Grief, memory, family, and resilience.

It Depends: Law, public policy, and sharp satire.

A Dog in the Game: Using artificial intelligence as a symbolic tracking dog to explore decisions about money, policy, and life.

It Figures: Education, language, and the realities of learning.

Fat Quarters: Lessons gathered from quilting, gardening, travel, and everyday life.

Travels With... Adventures with aging, dogs, and the search for dog-friendly places.

Magna's Star Journal & Mortal Black: Science fiction stories following generations of settlers building lives far from Earth.

I live in Maine with my wire-haired dachshunds, Turbo and Tracker. I write slowly, revise carefully, and believe that serious questions deserve more than one answer.