My Books
Abigail & Rumpus
The Green Dinosaur
Remembering how special she felt as a child weaving her own name into an adventure story, she set out to capture her three grandchildren’s personalities. Putting on paper their emotions while they wait for their father to come home from war, and as they work through the difficulty of leaving behind the homes they love as his Army rank rises and he takes on larger commands. The trilogy, written under the genre of Christian Military Family, includes Abigail and Rumpus the Green Dinosaur, Thomas’ Little Light, and Mia and the Missionaries.
Abigail misses her father who is a soldier deployed far, far away from their ranch in Texas. For her fourth birthday her two grandmothers create a green dinosaur costume that snaps to her rumpus. Although Abigail's own ears don't hear as well as other children's, she quickly discovers that only she can hear the dinosaur's magical voice.
Snapped together the two begin a year-long exploration of the ranch where their adventures include bottle feeding a baby calf, learning the proper way to call elk, and finding a suitable tail for a tailless monkey. Singing "Jesus Loves Me This I Know," gives the two friends courage while meeting a room full of wild animals. Explaining to Rumpus that God is always with us, even though He is invisible, helps Abigail remain brave until her father's safe return from Iraq.
Thomas' Little Light
Remembering how special she felt as a child weaving her own name into an adventure story, she set out to capture her three grandchildren’s personalities. Putting on paper their emotions while they wait for their father to come home from war, and as they work through the difficulty of leaving behind the homes they love as his Army rank rises and he takes on larger commands. The trilogy, written under the genre of Christian Military Family, includes Abigail and Rumpus the Green Dinosaur, Thomas’ Little Light, and Mia and the Missionaries.
Five-year-old Thomas has a lot to complain about. Not only has his father left him in charge of a house full of girls while fighting the war in Iraq, but Thomas also has growing pains in his legs that awaken him in the middle of the night. Then he has the added fear when he overhears his mother talking about moving far away from their grandparents' Texas ranch to live in a city called El Paso.
How can they leave the ranch they love to live around city kids who don't know anything about country things? How can he leave his grandparents who need his help? And, how will his sisters Leah, Abby and Mia react when they find out they must move into a neighborhood on an Army base?
Mia and the Missionaries
Remembering how special she felt as a child weaving her own name into an adventure story, she set out to capture her three grandchildren’s personalities. Putting on paper their emotions while they wait for their father to come home from war, and as they work through the difficulty of leaving behind the homes they love as his Army rank rises and he takes on larger commands. The trilogy, written under the genre of Christian Military Family, includes Abigail and Rumpus the Green Dinosaur, Thomas’ Little Light, and Mia and the Missionaries.
Six-year-old Mia misses her daddy who is serving in the military and deployed to Africa. While at Camp Gecko at her grandparents' ranch in central Texas she learns about Africa and imagines waving to her daddy as she rides around in the safari's Ranger.
The best part of Camp Gecko is the new friends she makes--children from a family of missionaries to Africa! She learns of the hardships of missionary life while they inform people about God. Thankful the seven campers are only pretending to be in Africa, they go bowling, act in funny skits, make animal-shaped cookies, catch frogs, and go on treasure hunts. Also while at camp, Mia beats everyone in shooting wild game and helps discover an escaped lion hiding in the barn.
Whiles she is having so much fun at Camp Gecko, what does Mia forget about? How does her brother, Thomas, help her understand that everything will be okay?
Color Me Pink
By allowing the child within to take center stage through rough times, the survivor entwines early life lessons with hardships encountered while fighting breast cancer. Color Me Pink is a five-year journey where prayers are answered, dreams come true, and readers will smile as they soak up the sweet taste of winning.
This is a book full of noteworthy quotes and inspirational Bible scriptures to strengthen any woman's backbone.
Blue Buttons & Red Tomatoes
Sylvia Denton's vow to solve a childhood hit-and-run mystery presents her with a decade of memorable experiences while delivering packages for a living. All are vying to be recorded in her notebooks, and each are urging her to listen for the real clues while she's rescuing children, fighting off starving dogs, overlooking hitchhiking rattlesnakes, and praying while holding a taser to ward off drunken men.
Weeding out the clues has her wondering if she just delivered the makings of a bomb. Was it drug money she saw bundled in rubber bands? And were any of those packages she delivered to Madeline Murray O'Hare ticking?
She must ignore thoughts about aiming gun barrels, forget about the bulky, bundled-up quilt laying all alone in the ditch beckoning to be opened, and instead, concentrate on finding the murderer while following a trail lined with plump red tomatoes.
The real question is, what will she do when she discovers the truth?
Belly Buttons: Lifelines From My Brother
Fictionalized Memoir
A suffering, older brother, persuades his little sister to join him in chopping off the
genetic roots of their shared hemophilia gene. As a concession for their life-long promise to never have children, he creates seven little packets holding instructions to help them through any crisis in their future lives. He also promises that a bit of magic is tucked inside. He calls them belly buttons.
Told from Patty Cakes’ perspective as she cares for her mostly bedridden brother, her
gullibility at eleven years old is made evident in more than just their promise. From pinky shake to forward sixty years, the belly buttons come in to play, six for Patty Cakes, and one for her brother. They lead the siblings, through death, deceit, divorce, new horizons and best of all, they introduce new blood into the family by adoption. Truly, these siblings share each other’s burden until the very end.
