I'm a writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. I write about young people growing up and falling in love. My stories are sometimes funny and sometimes sad, but they are always real. I've lived in California all my life. I love to travel up the Pacific Coast through Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska. I've been as far away from home as Hong Kong and Tokyo. Many of my stories involve musicians. As a teen, I played trombone in my high school band, and I have always enjoyed singing. Like my hero Thomas, I enjoy taking photographs. I dabble in photography, but writing is my passion. I'm married, with two daughters who have grown and left the nest. When they were little, I read aloud to them. I started writing about teens and children in part so that I could share my writing with them. They are still my two biggest fans.