​I have a story in this collection of inspirational/motivational, true-life tales of how saying "YES" to new adventures can change your life.

My Year of Why Not? (page 200) relates my experience with saying "why not?" to new ideas instead of "why now?" A year of pushing myself in new directions led me to producing and starring in my one-woman play at the renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.

And I did it again the next year! And I've been performing my play hither and yon since 2013.

Book is available on Amazon. 100 MORE stories plus mine!

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​In this collection of 101 stories about kittehs, I wrote about my neighbors' cat Bill and dog Bindi, and their sweet, unique and totally charming relationship with each other, the outside world and me, their occasional pet sitter.

These Chicken Soup books are always upbeat, amusing, inspirational and full of well-written true-life essays.

They also paid me! Yay!

​Get it on Amazon.

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It was great! Thanks, Fort Worth Fringe!

My solo show, Sweater Curse: A Yarn about Love, headlined the Fort Worth Fringe Festival
September 10-12, 2021
Fort Worth Community Arts Center
​Audiences were absolutely wonderful. And I gave away more than 300 knitted/crocheted items to those who came. Thanks, everyone! I hope the hats, scarves and gloves keep you warm this winter!
​There's love in every stitch.

My latest play is Dear Donald/Dear Hillary (Their Secret Correspondence).
In a filmed production starring Sally Vahle and Bob Hess, the play was in a dozen or more international theater/arts festivals in 2021. Among them: Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe Fests, Kelowna Festival in British Columbia, San Francisco Fringe, Boulder Fringe, plus fests in New Zealand and Australia through the summer and fall of 2021. It won the prestigious Standard Bank Ovation Award at South Africa's National Arts Festival. Click video up there on right to see the promo. It's a comedy!

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Theatre Crude Fringe Festival, Sept 26-Oct 6, Oklahoma City -- Great Fest! Did it! 

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My solo show, Sweater Curse: A Yarn about Love ... in Rockwall (TX), Mesquite, Dallas... and soon at the Crude Fringe Festival in Oklahoma City! To book this one-hour "knit lit" comedy, see contact info below.
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Productions of Finishing School

Recent productions in Minnesota, North Dakota and in a great one (the premiere!) at Elkhart (Indiana) Civic Theatre (actors Dave Dufour and Gail Janssen in the leads, pictured at right) and Fungus Amongus Players in Dassel, Minnesota, played to great reviews and capacity crowds. In January 2019, my play made its Nebraska debut at Lincoln Community Playhouse. 

As a contributor...

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Woohoo! Another Dallas-area book club has just adopted my novel 2084: An American Parable for its monthly "read." I love meeting readers and hearing comments, questions and critiques. Want the book for your book-reading group? Click on the cover and order from Amazon. It's priced low to get more copies sold! And when you read it, please leave a review. That's what helps indie novelists like moi.
More about this book:
In 2084, one political party runs Washington, D.C., and only one religion is legal. Can 21-year-old Waring Foster break free of a repressive, ultra-rightwing regime and find her way out of the cult of President Rex Evangeline?
Dallas Voice critic Arnold Wayne Jones says, "​The messages in this book are not subtle; subtlety is for people who have time to spare. Liner is saying, `We don't.'" 
This fast-moving dark literary parable of repression and rebellion leads to a twist inspired by Orwell, Bradbury, Serling and Chayefsky. I call my book "dyst-hope-ian" -- meant to terrify you about what could happen if we don't resist ... with the hope that it never, ever does.​​

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Sweater Curse:
​A Yarn about Love

My one-act play combines my love of knitting and great knitters of literature with my stories of grappling with unraveled relationships and knotty romances. From Penelope knitting her shroud for Ulysses, to Madame DeFarge, to Bette Davis in Now, Voyager, I weave the history of knitting into my personal, very woolly experiences trying not to repeat patterns that lead to unfinished sweaters.

Performed to five-star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013 and 2014, and then in successful runs at the New Orleans Fringe, Dallas Solo Fest, San Antonio Classic Theatre, Granbury Opera House and many other venues, Sweater Curse is a one-woman literary rom-com -- with lots and lots of sweaters. Run time is 55 to 75 minutes (length is whatever you request).
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I bring my own scenery (all yarn-bombed and/or crocheted/knitted by me), a soundtrack of knit-related tunes and the easiest lighting cues ever (basically UP and DOWN). Want to book me for your theater, group, organization, school or church? Find my contact info at the bottom of this page.

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Finishing School (a two-act comedy about life's second act)

Dave Dufour as Al, Gail Janssen as Wizzer, in Elkhart Civic Theatre's production, September 2017. Photo by Mel Moore

My comedy about old guys, flirty women and all the strange, wonderful, sometimes hilarious aspects of growing old and not realizing it, come together in this two-act, four-character (and one voiceover) play that had its world premiere in 2017 at the wonderful Elkhart Civic Theatre in Bristol, Indiana.
The play has been published by Dramatic Publishing, but if you want a reader's copy, contact me at the email address listed at the bottom of this page. Read it! It's hilarious! And no bad words!