I am a writer who supports my word habit as an LPGA Golf Professional, and a former Executive Chef. I write about life, food, and faith, a Written Buffet of thoughts and ideas!

I write about food, hospitality, and ministry:

My life is an ongoing story of making something from nothing.  Leaving an abusive home at age seventeen, I worked my way through college as a cook, more out of necessity and self preservation, than anything else.  I got a restaurant job, learned how to cook professionally, and through lots of hard work eventually became an Executive Chef.  I know hunger and lack with an intimacy that feels like my second skin. Food ministry and hospitality lived out as a gracious smile, a listening ear, and a good cup of coffee, are the longing of my heart and soul.  Or a simple meal, lovingly prepared with old friends and new, around the big wooden table are the experiences I pray for. Friends have told me that my ability to describe food leaves them famished and wanting, and that perspective enables me to write about food in a very compelling way, inviting you to sit and join us at the table.

I write about my life and family:

I am working toward the publication of my memoir, which is an illuminating and descriptive collection of stories that take you on my journey to define success and significance, through the lens of a troubling childhood at the hands of my mother who was an alcoholic, and a father who took his loneliness out on me.  There is the thread of forgiveness and redemption, and ultimate healing through our gracious God.

I write about my faith:

The tortuous struggle of knowing I belong to God and am gay, left me broken and defeated, and led down a path of self destruction through drugs and alcohol, and the behaviors that self hatred produce. My journey with God is just now, after forty three years as a follower of Christ, bringing me to a place of love, acceptance, and wholeness as I live into the knowledge that I am the Beloved child of God.

Join me as we journey together to reclaim our belovedness in God, with a few tears, a few laughs, and place for all of us at the table.