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For over forty years I worked as a speech pathologist helping clients in New, York, New Orleans, Houston, Boston and Dallas find their voices. Now I have found my own voice by telling the harrowing story of my parents,   experiences during World War II, including the horrors of the Bataan Death March, POW camps, and Hell Ships.

When I was ten years old, I was given a copy of Sydney Stewart’s, Give Us This Day, a personal account of a POW survivor’s experience.

It was eye opening and heart wrenching. The pictures that it created in my mind never left me. It planted the seeds of this historical novel.

In April of 2002, my husband and I  and our two children along with my sister Beth and brother Chuck went to the Philippines for the 60th anniversary of the Bataan Death March. We walked the last five miles of the March with six or seven of the original survivors, men between 80 and 93 years of age. 

During this trip we visited Camp Cabanatuan, the POW camp where my Father was interned the longest. As I stood at the fence looking over a field of grass

that had once held the prisoners’ nipa huts, I heard the moaning of men, hundreds of men rising from their graves. They were coaxing me to write this story.

The seeds  incubated as I raised my family and pursued my career.  In the early 2000's I started taking writing classes at a local community college. In 2002 I won the Eudora Welty Award for Excellence in the Short Story at North Lake College and in 2004 was awarded

second place for Literary Magazine—Feature Story by the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association. Both of these stories had to do with my fathers experiences. 

My husband and I live in the Dallas area. We

spend much of our time traveling abroad or at our home on Galveston Island. I love  to cook and am often found in one of my kitchens stirring a roux for a Louisiana gumbo or preparing South Carolina Chicken Bog.