Christa lives in Rector, a sleepy little town in Northeast Arkansas. The big old house she shares with her dog and cat, is slightly haunted. She keeps busy with her writing, website maintenance and volunteer work in the community. Twenty plus years ago, Christa and her husband, Dennis, sold their house in San Diego and moved to Rector, Arkansas. Christa was born there but was raised on the Texas Gulf Coast, only spending time in Rector each summer. It was always "home" to her and soon became home to her husband. Her first husband was military and for the years of their marriage, she enjoyed the adventure of living in different places, including Nuremberg and Kaiserslautern, Germany. A natural student of her environment, she studied people everywhere and when she wasn't working, she was writing, a newsletter, poems, short stories and thousands of beginnings of unfinished novels. When she was earning a living, it was in credit unions wherever they were living. Once she discovered the world of data processing her career changed. For the next fifteen years she was an implementation manager, first training, converting and supporting credit unions through their conversions, later switching to retail systems. She graduated from Clear Creek High School in 1964 in League City, Texas and married her first husband the following year becoming a military wife. Writing has taken over her life. She writes a weekly column for the hometown newspaper, blogs, maintains a few websites and is active in community projects. She co-authored an award winning memoir with friend Lana Swearingen, called "We Were Army Wives" which chronicles the birth of a life-long friendship between the two of them and two more Army wives who met in Germany in 1975. We Were Army Wives was published in 2012.