I was born in Nebraska, but spent only the first two years of my life there. The winters were too cold for my mother, so we moved back to Oklahoma, where both my parents were born and raised. We moved in with my mother’s mother in the house that was built for her and my grandfather, and in which my mother was born. It was in a small town North of Tulsa, and the house was on a state highway which zigzagged past our house until it got to the main street, where it went straight on through the rest of town and on to the next small town.

In college (not a university yet) I met my first husband and, several years later, gave birth to our son. The marriage ended after fourteen years, and that was when I found the life I wanted to live.

I went to a local SF convention, OKon, for one day and found it to be a lot of fun, so the next year I got a three-day membership. There, I made friends and, later, found myself on the Con Committee.

I joined a local fan group, and it was another friend who introduced me to acting

I, almost accidentally, found myself in a play, a Theatre Tulsa production of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. A friend from the fan group announced that she was going to audition for it, and I went with her (we were both cast). Now that was something I wanted to continue doing. The next play I auditioned for didn’t go as well, but I was asked to do the costuming.

That’s where I found new friends. Through them I was invited to a get-together at the house of one of their friends, and that hostess became my best friend for, so far, over thirty years. I continued acting, but in a smaller theatre group, and am still involved with it. I also act in the longest continually performed play in, possibly, the world. The Drunkard (and Olio) is performed every Saturday night in The Spotlight Theatre in Tulsa. This  play has been performed for, I think, 65 years now. It’s a wonderful show.

A couple of years later I was able to attend a Con in Oklahoma City, and a year or two later, I met the man who became my current & forever husband. We’re still married almost thirty years later.

This man was Brad, a writer who was, I thought, on all the panels I went to. After we met, he started writing me. He lived in Lawton, OK and I was in Tulsa. We didn’t get to see each other very often, but got to know each other through our letters.

In 1990 he moved to the town, Broken Arrow, where I lived. A year later we got married. Since then we have moved into Tulsa, and like it a lot.

I had thought about becoming a writer earlier in life, but I didn’t think about it for long. Other things came up and I just forgot about it. I was, and am, a reader. I didn’t see how it would be possible for me to write anything good after reading Tolkein, Bradbury, Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov and others, so I gave up.

After meeting Brad, though, I decided to try to write something, then something else. After one of them was published, I just kept going. You can see, from my Bibliography, that I don’t write quickly. Even though I’m retired, I keep busy.

One thing that I do that takes time away from writing is to make beaded jewelry with my best friend. We have an Etsy shop, sortasistersshinystf, and also sell at local craft shows. The name is actually Sorta Sisters Shiny Stuff, but we ran out of room for characters on the site and had to abbreviate.

Anyway, I’ll keep writing as long as I can type, trying to create stories that are fun, crazy and a little weird.