Welcome to Roots & Branches - I'm glad you're here!

I write essays on identity and belonging, often touching on heritage, memory, and renewal.

Seasons newsletter gathers image poetry inspired by Japanese haiga, shahai, haiku, haibun, prose poems, and vignettes about gardens, nature, memory, seeing, and impermanence.
The section, Beyond the Hedge, is devoted to essays about the novella, Through the Yew Hedge: A Tale of Identity Magic, fiction written under the pen name, Islay Corwin, free to read in serial here, as well as widely available in ebook — soon in illustrated hardcover.

Join me on this journey between myth and memory.

I am also the author of Permanent Home: A Memory Collection, Stroke Story, Fortitude’s Footing, and the adoption memoir, I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls.