This series holds a special place in my heart. It began when my son, age five, asked me to write him a Christmas song. Inspired by a radio story about an elderly woman decorated a tree for the forest animals, I wrote that song—and the next year, a story to match. When I turned to writing seriously, I revisited and expanded that original idea into something much larger: two illustrated novellas and a draft exploring indigenous and settler families’ experiences with the magical tree across three centuries. The next novella releases fall 2026.

My first novel is entitled the Serpent’s Eyes. It was an exercise in writing a totally fictional story entwined supernatural elements and  some historical characters and events. It is set in the 1500’s. It stands alone as a novel although I planned at the time to make it part of a three book series. Pilgrimage to Memphis is a romance adventure involving time travel back to the days of Elvis and his ‘Memphis Mafia’ entourage, and beyond that to the deep south in the 1930’s.