About Elizabeth
Author, adventurer, coffee grower, and proud feminist
living in the cloud forest of Panama.
“I did not know that in the process I would finally become the woman I had always wanted to be.”
The Journey
Blue Ridge Years
Busy! Raising three children, teaching, writing, building a psychotherapy practice, and working with women’s crisis centers. Very busy!
Italy
For her 50th birthday, Elizabeth traveled alone to Italy. She did not know that the journey would begin a process of self-discovery that would eventually change her life. You can read that story in Risking Everything: Coming Out in Coffee Land, her memoir of a life in process.
Panama
Traded the Blue Ridge for the jungles of Panama—and discovered a very different second act.
2010
Co-founded Cloud Forest Botanicals with Dianne, a small woman-owned business creating herbal tinctures and creams.
2009–2016
Travel became a constant source of inspiration, taking Elizabeth and Dianne through much of Europe, Latin America, China, Australia, and beyond. The sights, sounds, smells, and people they encountered continue to find their way into Elizabeth’s work.
2017
Walked the entire 500-mile Camino de Santiago with Dianne. From France, across the Pyrenees, through the Basque country, sleeping in hostels, mile after mile. Just walking. Changed everything.
2024
Iceland. Did NOT eat fermented shark meat.
2025
Published Chasing Tropical Ice, the first novel in the Chasing series.
2026
Explored the ancient medinas of Morocco and rode a camel into the red dunes of the Sahara.
Today
Still living on the side of a volcano. Still writing. Still traveling. Still looking for the next adventure.
Coming Soon — 2027
Chasing Arctic Fire. In Iceland’s frozen north, Gus and Kaye are drawn into another dangerous web of power, betrayal, and secrets—while the earth itself begins to shift beneath them.