Born in London 65 years ago, I am now a widow with two grown up sons, one of whom lives in Michigan where I also have a house on Lake Whitmore which I visit frequently to sit by the lake to write and paint. Always interested in writing stories, many of which appeared in our school magazine. I studied languages and taught them - encouraging my students to write interesting stories in whatever language. Once retired, I took up creative writing and studied under an excellent tutor, Sandie Traveller and later at Winchester University. I am a member of two writing groups where we encourage each other by reading work for critique. One of my short stories won a prize at our local library and I narrated another on the radio.