The Era of Me!

I came to writing later in life. By then, I had raised three daughters, spent years caring for my eldest, loved, lost, screwed up, started over, and learned that no one was coming to hand me permission. So I gave it to myself.

I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. I’m a single mother to three grown daughters and the lifelong caregiver to my eldest, Taelor, who requires continuous support. Caregiving is not a side note in my life. It is beautiful, exhausting, funny, lonely, relentless, and sometimes all of those things before coffee. It has made me observant because I have to be. I notice the change in someone’s face, the breath before the reaction, the thing being said without words. That comes into everything I write.

I write about what I know: love, grief, memory, identity, and what happens when life doesn’t turn out the way we thought it would. I’m interested in the people we misunderstand, the conversations we avoid, and the truths that have a way of showing up whether we’re ready for them or not.

I’ve written short stories, novellas, feature screenplays, films, poetry, and songs. I created the interactive CamBam children’s meditation series and wrote the novellas Beyond the Sun and Of Niam & Josie. My short films include Everything I Am, about a love lived through memories, and All This Time, about two people trying to decide whether love can survive the years they lost.

UNTOLDSHORTSHORTS™ is where I began. The Haus of MARROW™ is where the work is expanding—across film, writing, poetry, sound, and artifacts—all rooted in the same ethos.

I spent years trying to get it right.

Now I just want to get it true.

This is the era of me.