Welcome – your journey has brought you to my home page. The links to the left will navigate you through my split personalities…as an author, a journalist, a Jaycee, a professional, a woman and mother. (Click "Girl" at left to learn more about me.)

Why “This Girls Life”?

The name is a play on the title of one of my favorite books, “This Boys Life” by Tobias Wolff. Widely regarded as a classic tale of American boyhood, the memoir received the Los Angeles Times book prize for biography, and the Ambassador Book Award of the English-speaking Union.

"Few authors have reported their early years, wasted, halcyon, or otherwise, with the same suspense, longing, loathing, and glorious humor. The writing is clear and merciless, and the chapters are as fluid and perfect as anything I've read in years."
- Jeff Danziger, Christian Science Monitor, on This Boy's Life

As a budding teenage author, this book had a huge impact on me (and not because Leo did the movie –probably despite it). A combination of factors, from the fact that it is set (in Concrete, Wash.) a short distance from where I grew up (Blaine, Wash.) to the absolute honesty with which it was written, really touched me as a writer.

Learn more about the author, a professor at Stanford, here:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/english/cw/facultybios/wolff.html