About The Author

Welcome!

I’ve had a website for – dare I say it – eighteen years now! I’ve been writing this series for four. My blog is a work in progress, and hopefully, by the time you find me, I’ve got my ducks in a row and the blog that I offer will be in the correct place! (And actually written….)

The blog will come out every two weeks on Mondays. It will cover typical content in Tiger Lily’s Cafe. In the series, the main human character, Annie, owns several businesses.
  • A cafe (you’ll get food and recipe ideas);
  • A yoga studio (well, you might get some tips there, but don’t hold your breath);
  • A blues bar (you would get information on blues music and recipes for fantastic drinks);
  • A bakery (want ideas for truffles? breads? baked goods?);
  • A winery (dry reds, anyone? and others, but I speak best to dry varieties);
  • A bed and breakfast (interesting tidbits on crazy guests and how to be a great host or hostess);
  • Cats will be a topic;
  • And I might share tidbits on other things that happen in life.

Please join me for the journey. Introduce me to your cats and dogs, your best recipes, your favorite local wineries, restaurants that have given you the “wow” factor, travel locations that are must-visits, or anything else!

About Me

I was raised on a small family farm in Indiana. I have an undergraduate degree in Sociology from Manchester College (now Manchester University) and an MBA from Indiana University South Bend.

In a variety of towns and circumstances, I served as a probation officer, parole agent and juvenile residential counselor before moving into administrative, marketing and fund-raising positions in human service organizations. I took a break from human services for seven years to own and operate a bar and restaurant. Let’s be honest; that’s another type of human service.

While making plans to return to my rural roots, my mother and I discovered an injured kitten at the family farm. The kitten, whose face was a mass of unhealed injuries, decided to rescue me. She wrapped herself around an ankle, started purring, and wouldn’t let go. Against the advice of my mother, I took the kitten home and to a veterinarian. The vet diagnosed road burn serious enough to take all the fur from the left side of her face, and the kitten – Tiger Lily – eventually healed and took a huge part of my heart.

Tiger Lily was joined by the rest, rescue kitties, all: Little Socks (thank you, Aunt Mary); Kali, Ko and Mo (thank you, Connie); Sassy Pants (thank you, Ant Sherwy); and Mr. Bean (thank you, Pulaski Animal Center). Two recent arrivals, Speckles (thank you, Tennille) and Moriah (thank you again, Pulaski Animal Center), have joined the cast but will not live at the Inn.

Tiger Lily’s Café rattled around in my brain – there isn’t much else up there – for all of the years since Tiger Lily rescued me, sometimes as an actual café and sometimes as a book. It was less expensive to write the book.

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