Mountain Lion Rises: A Memoir of Healing, Pen Women Press, {can be ordered from any local bookstore}
(Creative Non-fiction Memoir) 2023
Winner in four categories of 2024 Human Relations Book Awards:
Gold: Recovery
Gold: Family Journey
Silver: Life Challenges
Bronze: Personal Determination
"Solar Project won't Benefit Local Region," Santa Fe New Mexican, March, 2024
"Barbarous Statements," Santa Fe New Mexican, November 2020
"Coyote Tales," 1st runner up in Good Housekeeping/She Books "Every Mother has a Story Contest, April 2014
"Salt River," The Examined Life: A Literary Journal of The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Spring 2012
"Because of Siblings," Fostering Families Today, July/August 2006
"Taking Your Time," National Foster Parents Association Newsletter, Spring 2002
"Taking Your Time," News and Views of Iowa, January 2002
"Celebrating Kwanzaa," News and Views of Iowa, November 2001
"Developing a Resilient Child and Forming Attachments," News and Views of Iowa, January 2001
"Back on the Land Where I Intended to Be," The Sunday Des Moines Register, July 2000
"Why Would Anyone Want to Burn the Catalpas?" The Sunday Des Moines Register, July 2000
"A World of Light," Peter's Path, May/June 1998
"Walking the Fence Line," AIM, America's Intercultural Magazine, Spring 1998
"Before Light Shows," Challenges, Winter 1997/98
"Sloppy KIsses," Peter's Path, March/April 1998
"Telling Gent," Peter's Path, December 1997
"Labor of Love," (a book review) Iowa Woman Magazine, Winter 1995
"Growing Sisters," Rosebud, Winter 1994/95
"Not Able to Join the Dance," (a book review) Iowa Woman Magazine, Winter 1994/95