Barbara

I co-authored my first book – a “Diotionary” of nonsense words – in the fourth grade. My early spelling challenges resolved, I now weave those words into short stories and novels.

I have a big family and a cat, Homer, who types. His favorite perch is my computer keyboard. No doubt you’ve sensed the chapters of CROSSING THE TRACKS he has composed.

When not writing, I am an art museum docent at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.

A bit more about me

One individual I know has finally asked, “Well, what are some of the nonsense words in that goofy old “Diotionary” of yours. So here’s a sampling:

crantis
krimifranz
toochy
crudes
fooyploo
murst
pleepy

Enough said.

On New Years Day 2008 while visiting a Shinto shrine in Miyajima, Japan my husband, my son and I wrote New Year’s wishes on rectangles of balsa wood and hooked them on the altar. Thousands of wishes hung there. One hope of mine was to have CROSSING THE TRACKS published… and bingo! So… I highly recommend a trip to Miyajima, Japan on the first of January, if you also have an impossible, crazy, all consuming passionate wish – or better, lots of them.