i am a former journalist and current marketing and communications professional with nearly 40 years' experience. i have written for Good News Magazine; once  sold a joke to Reader's Digest; and post occasionally to this blog, a collection of musings about faith, family and ancestry with almost 80,000 views.

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since 2019, i have focused my outside-of-work efforts on writing novels. Lint Head and Aunt Connie's Old-Fashioned, New-Fangled, Electrified County Road Christmas are currently being shopped to publishers.

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