About Me
I am a homemaker, writer, editor, and poet. I teach three of my eight children at home on a little farm-to-be just north of Lawrence, Kansas. I have taught classes in Business Management, Drama, Rhetoric and Writing; led workshops on Holy Leisure, Home Schooling, Writing for Good Causes, Better Thesis Papers, Personality Styles, and C.S. Lewis’ Preface to Paradise Lost; spoken for women’s retreats, Home-School conferences, C.S. Lewis classes, conferences and study groups; and offered lectures on the Life and Works of Dorothy Sayers, Lewis’ Till We Have Faces, and poetry. I have published work in Envoy, Canticle, Hereditas, Catholic Exchange and newspaper editorial pages and am currently promoting a new book about Sabbath rest: Souls at Rest.  I can now also say, tongue-in-cheek, that I am an ‘award winning’ poet – see my winning clerihews in the published poetry section! I have just begun writing a conversation parents can share with children about sacred geometry. It is available only to families in my local area, for now, as a loaned kit. Anyone can follow the developments at HolyGeometryProject.org.  I have a fun serial book at OurElizabeth.org.  All my projects are supported by the non-profit Joy Foundation, which can be viewed at JOYFound.org. On that site, you may obtain my booklet, "Life In Motion: Why I Love Driver Education Time With My Teens" for a donation of any amount. JOY supports the Catholic Library & Cultural Center of Kansas, the Northeast Kansas Chesterton Society, the Catholic Creatives Salon, the Living Poem Society, the Society for Timeless Pursuits, and much else that could use funds!

You are welcome to anything you find on my site, for personal use, and I would love to know how you're using it.  All published work is available for reprint - contact me.  In particular, I would like to offer all the Homemade Humor to any Catholic parish or diocesan papers whose readers would enjoy them, for a nominal fee - contact me.  I think of my writing as collaborating with others, rather than as selling a product, so I am most interested in sharing it where it can help another Catholic work. 

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