Hurricane Shirley?

Basically I’m a California girl. I grew up in L.A. and spent most of my adult years in the San Francisco Bay Area. I moved back to L.A. in March of 2005; back to San Francisco in July 2006. In November of 2007 I moved to Las Vegas with my significant other to take care of his mother, who is in poor health. Hurricane Shirley is my nickname in the blogosphere.

I am thrice divorced (go ahead, laugh, everyone does.) In the 1980s and 90s, I was a songwriter and singer, held down a variety of low-paying day jobs, and raised two kids.

In February 2005 I began work on The Charlotte Stories, a series of short fiction pieces workshopped in the CraigsList Literary and Writing Forum. Under the handle BowlOfCherries, I was involved there through 2007 as contributor, copy editor, and co-editor of several fiction anthologies spawned from that forum.

I spend my time digesting my experiences, only sometimes worrying about where my next hug will come from, learning to write stories instead of songs, and trying to get my ass out of debt.