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.

 

I’ve Lived In: Dallas, London, Nashville, North Carolina, Dallas, Boston, Austin, Austin/Mobile

Favorite Male Musician: Willie Nelson

Favorite Female Musician: Loretta Lynn

Languages I Have Studied: Italian, French, Latin

Languages I Can Actually Speak Fluently: a Texmex Menu

A River I Know Pretty Damn Well: The Missouri River in Montana, north of Holter Dam

Highschool: Harpeth Hall School, Nashville TN. We were the Honeybears. Yes, you read that right.

College: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Go Heels.

I Cheer Hard For: Carolina Tarheel football, Texas Longhorn football, Alabama football, Carolina Tarheel basketball.