Welcome
I like to describe myself as a wife and mother/grandmother first and then as an English professor at Florida SouthWestern State College in Punta Gorda, Florida, as well as author. I am married to an amazing man and have two wonderful children as well as three very smart and very beautiful grandchildren. We are blessed and well aware of our familial wealth.
I have been teaching for over thirty years, and I have loved every moment of it (ok, maybe not every moment). but close. Writing has always been a passion, so in 2005 I began writing with a furvor, and eventually published three books. A cookbook that I personally published and two novels published by Doggie in the Window. Destined for Greatness is a spiritual quest novel that answers the lifelong question, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" Forbidden: A Love Story was written after my mother's death. My sisters and I found a lovely box of letters under my mother's bed. The letters described my mother's and father's love story. The book is a memorial to them. I have written for Poetry Soup, Niche Magazine, Poets and Writers, and I have my own blogs: Words of Wisdom; Writers Pad, and Cooking With Natala.
I have been teaching for over thirty years, and I have loved every moment of it (ok, maybe not every moment). but close. Writing has always been a passion, so in 2005 I began writing with a furvor, and eventually published three books. A cookbook that I personally published and two novels published by Doggie in the Window. Destined for Greatness is a spiritual quest novel that answers the lifelong question, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" Forbidden: A Love Story was written after my mother's death. My sisters and I found a lovely box of letters under my mother's bed. The letters described my mother's and father's love story. The book is a memorial to them. I have written for Poetry Soup, Niche Magazine, Poets and Writers, and I have my own blogs: Words of Wisdom; Writers Pad, and Cooking With Natala.
We are Destined for Greatness!
Have you ever wanted to know why certain things happen? Have you ever questioned why bad things happen to good people? I have always been curious, so I wrote Destined for Greatness and decided I would explore some answers of my own.
Stories for and from the heart.
Forbidden: A Love Story was written to memorialize my mother and father. It is their love story as it began in difficult times after W.W.I when Europe was experiencing the emergence of Benito Mussolini and Hitler.