After fourteen years as a marketing and advertising executive, I left corporate life behind in favor of writing, public speaking and being a homeroom mom. In 2007 I started blogging about my passion, fly-fishing, and before long readers were tuning in regularly to read my stories and share their own. This fishing crowd introduced me to the Texas Water Safari Race, a life-altering challenge I simply couldn’t resist. A publisher offered me a book deal to write about my experience as a novice paddler competing in this ultra endurance river race. I am thrilled that my first published book was released Fall of 2011.

In addition to fishing, rivers and ridiculous leaps of faith, I am crazy about good food, bad TV, designer handbags, jukeboxes and old honkytonk music. But above all, I am madly in love with my husband and daughter. We call both Austin Texas and Mobile Alabama home, all the while trying to spend as much time as possible in Montana.