About
Savary Island, B.C. - Photo by E. Nesdoly
The world of words has fascinated me for as long as I can remember. As a kid, whenever Mom needed me for a job, it was an almost sure thing she’d find me between the covers of a book.
During high school I earned my first publishing credits in The Western Producer - “Young Co-operator’s Page.” I decided then that someday I would like to be a writer.
Though I wrote very little for public consumption in the years that followed – through Bible School, university, teaching, miscellaneous jobs, marriage, the arrival of two children, homemaking and running my home-based medical transcription business – I continued to write privately, journal upon journal. It was my way of processing life and book-marking God’s dealings with me.
In 1995, one year from a landmark birthday, I realized that unless I put some muscle into developing writing skills, my childhood fantasy of working as a writer would remain just that. By the year’s end I had enrolled in a correspondence course and in March 1997 sold my first children’s story to Keys for Kids.
Since that time I have written and published over 100 articles in periodicals, Sunday School papers and online. Several pieces have been included in book collections including devotions in the One Year Book of Devotions for Boys and One Year Book of Devotions for Girls, Books 1 and 2 (Tyndale Kids), a poem, story and essay in Celebrating the Season 2001 (Essence Publishing), and a story in Follow the Dream – Daystar Reader 6 (Philippine Publishing House). I have also published two books of poetry, Calendar (2004, SparrowSong Press ) and Family Reunion (2007, Utmost Christian Writers).
My husband and I live in metro Vancouver, BC. One of our favorite places is our home church Christian Life Assembly in Langley B.C.
Our adult children are living on their own and we have two grandsons.
Besides writing I enjoy gardening, nature and bird watching – with camera in hand of course – and traveling and reading.
