a place that was steeped in the magic of fellowship, with an equal place for everyone, as friends and neighbors piled into her grandmother's dining room and filled every booth and table.

It was hard to leave, and in a way, she never did. In a life that took her first to California, then to New York City, and finally to Florida, she was always writing, and often it was of the people she remembered back home. Sometimes she wrote for herself, and sometimes for others, whether it be her early short stories, or her later writings in all media, including corporate training films, stage plays, television, newspapers, and internationally published novels, including the critically acclaimed A Southern Woman, set in the Civil War.