I am a long time contributing writer for the Northside Sun and was winner of the General Interest Column, Mississippi Press Award, 2007 and was a second place winner in 2014. I have written and published four books: a memoir, Come Up Churning and Keep your Buckets High, Streams of Mercy, a book about my rescue dog, June Cleaver and a walk she and I took up the Natchez Trace to Savannah Tennessee; I have written two novels, Redemption Ridge and Saleta's Secrets and quite a few short stories and essays.
