If you're not laughing, you're not doing it right!" This is my axiom, the words I try to live by. In all my stories I add a scene or two where the characters say something humorous, no matter how serious the moment is. Humor is the ointment you can slather over all your problems. Though it might not take them away, it sure relieves the stress. And think about all those endorphins pinging around your insides like little bowling balls, knocking down all those pins trying to stand in rigid defiance. They can't win. Try for a strike!

~ Cheri is an author, lecturer, and noted expert on the Catholic Ladder, a timeline developed by the Jesuit blackrobes sent to the Americas to teach the scriptures to the Native Americans. She has taught theology for twenty years using the Talmud (Rabbinic commentaries on the scripture), the Aggadah (Oral stories of the Old Testament), and the Kabbalah (the Jewish ladder of creation) as resources.

~ She is the author of The Night Shadow, the first of three mysteries set in the 1960s featuring two former NYPD detectives who open a private investigating firm. Her stories can be classified as mystery / thriller / suspense, and, yet they contain a touch of romance to make it a classic cozy mystery.

~ Cheri was born in New Mexico, and later moved to California where she married and traveled around the continental US, and Europe, until she settled on a small ranch in South Central Texas. She is the mother of two sets of twins, born on the same day, fourteen years apart. She is a grandmother, and a willing vassal to her majesty, a coydog named Scully, and her partner in crime, Mulder, a Great Pyrenees. You might find her out in the desert or at the seashore snapping photographs, her passion, along with writing.