Following my dream to become a writer, I moved to New York City in my twenties. There, I had the chance to study with some great writers, including international correspondent Barbara Probst-Solomon, poets Lucie Brock-Broido and Mark Doty, and many others. I received student awards for essays from Columbia University Press, The Scripps Howard Foundation and Women in Communications.

My studies as a graduate student at Columbia University and then Sarah Lawrence College (where I earned an Master of Fine Arts) led to the publication of my memoir, Crazy Quilt:  Pieces of a Mennonite Life.  I spoke at many forums across the United States. These include Princeton University, Yale School of Divinity, the American Association of University Women, Barnes and Nobles bookstores, and many other platforms. I published Divine Purpose: Find the Passion Within, to help people find a life path that they feel passionate about. My new book, Mennonite on the Edge: An Unlikely Romance was published in 2015 on Kindle by Ragged Sky Press, Princeton. It was released in paperback in February. Crazy Quilt was released on Kindle in summer, 2017.

Other publications include articles in New Jersey Monthly, Mothering, a short story in the collection, Just Moms: Conveying Justice in an Unjust World, as well as many other forums.