For the last two years I've been working at the Cumberland Times-News as a police reporter, where the press releases that cross my desk continually remind me why I wrote Sister Of Silence. Violence against women shows no sign of slowing, with more children sexually assaulted by their neighbors or even killed by their parents, and more women being battered in their own homes or even (more and more, it seems) in public during broad daylight. And the cases of teen or adult women who are raped remain an unending problem.

But it's not just a problem in this small Western Maryland town where I work: it's a national problem. And that's why people need to know how to change their behavior, saving themselves and loved ones in the process. So the time for Sister Of Silence has arrived. While I continue working in the newsroom, covering these serious problems, I can only hope it helps others as much as the processes and knowledge it contains helped me.

During the past eighteen months, this site was down, and for that I apologize. Sometimes the daily business of making a living just gets in the way. But now it's back up and ready to go. Read, enjoy and learn - how living life differently is its own reward!