In the summer before my 30th birthday, I tossed my Hollywood career aside, hopped into my 1998 Toyota Tacoma and drove from California to Massachusetts and back again, picking up hitchhiking canines and driving them from shelters to rescues, rescues to foster homes, and foster homes to forever homes. This is the story of where the dogs led me, along the highways and byways of America and into the deepest regions of my heart, on our shared quest to find Home. 

2011 Narrative Nonfiction/Memoir

"...This fairy did not delight in moondances and revelry; she longed to touch the sun. But her fairy wings were not strong enough to carry her into the sunset. She had tried with all her might and all her magic, and yet every evening she was left there on the hill, where the glowing orb of light had left her. This evening, hope had finally perished and she mourned the loss. The other fairies laughed at her, telling her that she and they were meant to chase the moon, not touch the sun. They were to frolic under starry skies, not dream of day. But this ambitious fairy wanted more..."

Chasing the Sun is the story of how one unorthodox fairy and a broken wing gave the world a permanent living reminder that all of our dreams—no matter how impossible they seem—are within our reach.

2007 Children's Book, ~2000 words

Before the famous dove took flight from Noah's Ark and returned with an olive branch, Noah sent out another bird who supposedly never returned.

Raven's Ark is the story of what happened to that first explorer, and the oft forgotten gift that he gave all of humanity.

2005 Short Story, ~2900 words

"...All was blue above him, and all was blue below him. As the sun neared the horizon, he panicked. He had no idea from which way he had come and where he was going, all was blue—he had become enveloped into this blanket of blue with no idea of what was east or west, or north or south. He was becoming tired, but did not know which way was the path to safety. As the fiery ball of light disappeared beneath the earth, the bird fully comprehended his situation. All this time he had not been flying in any of the cardinal directions, but instead, straight up into the blue heavens..."