Born and raised in New York, adopted at age 3, one brother, also adopted, more cats than common sense as a child, loved to tell stories (on several levels), started writing in the 5th grade, enjoyed writing at work (typing 130 wpm makes it easy to pull this off - get the real work done by noon, then have fun, heh-heh), got married and moved to Florida, has a husband and three children, currently gets woken up by the very wet nose of a German Shepherd, continues to write, make music, drive people nuts...life is good.