Unveiling Stories of Silk Trails and Yesteryear

My bed is my writing desk, and my laptop is my window to the world. For much of my life, I’ve lived with limitations—but never a limited imagination. Writing from bed has given me time to think, to notice, and to create.

In my sixties, I completed a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing, with minors in  Psychology and Sociology —because understanding people has always mattered to me. I’ve written ten novels for YA readers and two children’s fairy books, and now, at nearly eighty, I’m launching this new adventure: my website.

I’m a widow, a mother, a grandmother, and a great- and great, great grandmother, living in North Queensland, Australia. This space is my way of passing on what I’ve learned, created, and loved along the way.

A Girl 12 from the twenty-first century, time-travels to the 1700s. She meets her relatives there. They are investigating a hot-air balloons and hide when they hear someone coming. That man cuts the ropes and the balloon rises and takes then to France. They are in danger because of war and catch the only boat they can Going in the wrong direction. The travel to four countries while trying to get home. They are in danger,  flee, have adventure and are in peril at times. It tales them a year to get home. Then the girl had to find a way to get home. She makes it home.

A girl aged eleven, In Italy watches her family murder and then is sold into slavery in the year 1205. She is put onto a ship and when it reaches China a salor helps her escape. They make two friends In China traveling through areas at war. They spend 6 months  traveling and camping with Gengus Khan’s soldierd before they escape. Then flee across to the west in peril and have adventure taking another girl home who only has limited information on where she lived when young. When they arrive they all realise it is their home too. but the story doesn’t end there. 

A 12 year old girl inherits a journal recording a record of a  girl her age journey to find her people, and a stone from the stone age. But she is shocked when she holds the stone and reads the journal she it transported to the stone age to see into the life of a stone age girl age 11 years old. When the 12 year old girl wakes up she realalises she can visit the stone age when ever she wants to return, just by reading an interesting journal. So she does.  Following their lives. 

In this magical poem, a young girl spots fairies walking along the road outside her house. With wonder and excitement, she invites them to live on her property. The poem beautifully captures the joy and enchantment she experiences as the fairies become a delightful part of her everyday life.

This charming poem tells the story of a little girl who always dreams of being small enough to play with fairy children. One magical night, her wish comes true. She awakens to find herself tiny and sees fairy lights glowing in the distance. She runs toward the lights and shares an unforgettable adventure with the fairy folk.