I grew up in Kimberley South Africa under the draconian government of "Apartheid" before the democratic government came into place during the Presidency of Nelson Mandela.

This influenced my life and greatly impacted on my writing.

I always had a passion for writing since my school days and later entered my stories in various competitions. My poetry book which was published by a U.K. publisher only stayed on the shelves of bookstores for a day before being removed by the apartheid government as it was perceived to be politically motivated against the government of the day. It was truly only poems of love.

The story behind my latest book "Letters from my Heart" was written shortly after the death of my husband and reflects the power of true love,... a love found during the dark days of "apartheid" in South Africa which was not permitted by a law that prohibited relationships and marriage across the "color line". However my story reflects the resilience of the human spirit in times of tragedy and loss and attempting to understand it.

Smashwords has made it possible for my story to reach the world at large.

For me, it is a means of uplifting my spirit and drawing closer to the meaning of life as we see it.

I am in the process of writing a novel based on life's experiences. I find that no matter where you are everything is the same and that humanity is but a single community. That readers will be able to identify with more or less the same experiences.

The beauty of the rising sun and the breaking of dawn.

I walk, laugh and play and drink up the beauty of nature.

Yes it was "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott and as a young girl it brought to me how the everyday things in life could be unique.

My desk is anywhere I happen to be as I use my laptop.