"Sam"

My blogs

Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Location	Lake Tahoe, Nevada, United States
Introduction	I've done craft projects since my childhood, starting with embroidery & those potholders made from loops. Now I have a basement studio packed to the rafters with categorized tools and supplies. When I stopped working a few years ago I went back to my adolescent dream of being a full-time writer. Sometimes I suspect that art is an avoidance technique for my writing. I feel both joy and pressure trying to make up for lost time. I am still working on my first novel, "Cowbird Lodge, Nevada." I keep rewriting it to each new level of ability. In my tale of personal risk told in the language of the Nevada casinos and deserts, my main character, Rebecca "Becky" Richfield, retreats in solitude to her Grandfather Pershing's mountain home after her card-counting partner marries her sister. When that sister dies twenty years later, Becky comes out of seclusion to mentor her sister's twenty-year old adopted daughter. Together they struggle to beat the odds in and out of the casinos as they uncover the genetic and psychological history they seem doomed to repeat.
Interests	paper arts, cloth arts, digital photography, quilting, art clothes, scrapbooking, mosaics, decorating, cardmaking, printmaking, reading, writing
Favorite Movies	Wonder Boys, Moonstruck, Big Chill, Good Will Hunting, Michael
Favorite Books	The Hours, Accidental Tourist, Joy Luck Club, Cider House Rules, Widow for One Year, Empire Falls, Blue Highways