My Story

Storytelling starts with curiosity. 

I ask a lot of questions. 

 

With a background in journalism—I got my first job as a news reporter for a local radio station at 16—I've lived my entire life telling stories, including my own. 

 

I wrote the best-selling cookbook/memoir, Cowgirl Chef: Texas Cooking with a French Accent (Running Press/Hachette), a collection of essays and recipes that captured my homesickness for Texas and big love for France. 

 

My straightforward, journalism-based storytelling style works across media boundaries. I've written for radio and television, magazines and newspapers, and worked for agencies as a multimedia content developer and casting director. In book publishing, I've worked as a ghostwriter, editor, and book coach.

 

Based in Paris and Dallas, when I'm not working, I'm usually at the park with my lively Australian Shepherd, Grace, taking French lessons (still), or writing novels.