From the time I was a tiny girl, I dreamed of becoming a writer, but those dreams got swallowed alive by crisis and confusion as I moved into adolescence. Through the patient witness of a friend, I came to faith in Jesus the Jewish Messiah at the tail end of the Jesus Movement in 1974.
Shortly after I married Bill in 1979, a friend from church approached me with an out-of-the-blue idea. “I work for the National Public Radio station in Chicago, and we’re producing a children’s show in our studios. We always need short scripts. It seems like this might be something you might enjoy doing.” I don’t remember exactly why she lobbed this idea my way, but I do remember feeling like I must have been waiting my whole life for a request like this.
I immersed myself in the study of playwriting books, and the station produced a few of the scripts I wrote for them. I then had a few articles, a number of children’s stories, and a full-length play published during those years.
After a hiatus from writing when my three children were young, I began writing for publication in earnest beginning in the mid-1990’s. I did a little of everything: wrote two more plays, reviewed home school curriculum, wrote press releases for an art gallery, served as a communications coordinator at a non-denominational church, created skits for congregational use, and crafted lots of articles for a variety of Evangelical print publications. I also began tutoring groups of home school students.
Since then, I’ve worked at a seminary bookstore, produced church services at a church and at a Christian university, served as a Communications Director for a parachurch ministry, and have been a consultant for several faith-based nonprofits. I received a graduate certificate from Northern Seminary in June 2017. In addition, I served for 8 years as the U.S. Administrator for the Caspari Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies.
My primary vocational focus today is writing and speaking about spiritual formation topics. If you’d like to know more about what I’ve published to date, click here.