Hi and thanks for stopping by! I am a public school teacher in West Virginia (USA) with a love of music. I sing locally, sometimes as a soloist and sometimes as an alto in my family's gospel quartet, and I am a certified lay speaker which allows me to fill the pulpit when pastors are away and need a substitute.

My musical training comes by way of my father, the public school system (we have some top notch teachers) and Ben Speer's Stamps-Baxter School of Music where I spent a couple months of intense training under mentors Jack Clark, Harold Lane, Eugene McCammon and Daryl Williams. I now write for the southern convention-style songbooks as well as for myself, my church choir, school's choruses, and some of the performers of Southern Gospel and Inspirational music. I have been extremely blessed to share some writing credits with Tery Wilkins (If It Wasn't For The Cross),Chris Binion and David Hanvelt (One Gave All), Gregory Lousignant, Ph.D (The Best Day Of My Life), and Fawn Jacobs. The last song, "When We Gather In The Lord," is an example of my convention-style writing. It was included in the "Gospel Heritage" 2008 book and, in the demo, is being performed by Lynn Clayton, Amber Hunt, Bill Lystlund, Dylan Feezell, and C. Nelson Bailey as part of the 2008 Southern Gospel Music School of America.

I live in the wonderful community of Moundsville where I'm also a church choir director, AWANA commander, and Sunday School teacher. My husband, Bill, is a retired high school history teacher and continues to be active in our public schools, local church and Lions Club. Life takes its turns, but God is good all the time!
Here are some pictures of family, friends and my fellow social studies teachers.