About

Hi, I’m Beth, and I’m happy to say that I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.  Most of my early life was spent as a preacher’s daughter in Eastern North Carolina, but I always felt most at home in the Appalachians.  So, four years ago, my family and I followed our hearts west.  As they say, I wasn’t born here, but I got here as quick as I could.
 
I’m married, with two children, who, if I may say so, are simply the most extraordinary children ever.  My youngest just left for college.  Empty nest?  Are you kidding?  They might be gone, but their stuff isn’t.  Books, papers, art supplies, computer parts, amps, guitars—I am still surrounded by the remnants of my children’s lives.  But I don’t really mind.  Truth is—I’m not quite ready to completely let go.
 
My abiding interests and passions—besides raising my children—are reading, hiking, porch sitting, and trying to grow a little every day in my spiritual life.   I have been a secretary, library assistant, and a janitor.  My husband is a carpenter and handyman.  And both of us want to write. 
 
I used to write.  Poetry, essays, fiction—even got published a time or two, but the past twenty years have been hard ones.  They’ve taken a toll, and I’ve lost something.  Oh sure, I still write, but it comes hard.  That’s why I started this blog—to see if I can find what I lost and to see if I can ever hope to become a real writer. 
 
Thanks for reading.  I appreciate it.