Life in Violet is the story of Violet McKay, a psychotherapist who lives alone in a little house overlooking the ocean. She names her house "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue" unwittingly revealing her sense of life. Despite an intense and often overwhelming inner life, Violet believes she has been "therapized and sanitized" out of her early experiences of betrayal and loss. It takes an injury and a sexual obsession with a psychiatrist to break open her past and reveal her own deep need for healing. In the course of her relationships with her clients and three men, a priest, an actor and a widower, Violet finds herself, forgiveness, and new life.

Life in Violet is the story of Violet McKay, a psychotherapist who lives alone in a little house overlooking the ocean. She names her house "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue" unwittingly revealing her sense of life. Despite an intense and often overwhelming inner life, Violet believes she has been "therapized and sanitized" out of her early experiences of betrayal and loss. It takes an injury and a sexual obsession with a psychiatrist to break open her past and reveal her own deep need for healing. In the course of her relationships with her clients and three men, a priest, an actor and a widower, Violet finds herself, forgiveness, and new life.

Jumping on God's back like a monkey, seeing the world through his eyes is one of the playful images in "A Sip on the Between of Time." Everyone is busy, stressed. Have we forgotten how to see, how to enjoy life? Running about, getting ahead, spending. These things become the focus of the day. Shall we remember "pieces of time unfolding like flowers?" This book is a tiny collection of twenty-seven poems and three short, short stories. An invitation to steal, (really, to find again) the sweetness and fun at the center of life.

Love, waiting for love, hope, creativity, adventure, God, spring, summer, winter, self-acceptance are all among the topics covered. This little book is meant to be tucked in backpack or pocketbook, kept by the computer, or in the car ready to be read while idling in "rush hour" traffic. The hope is that it will wash away weariness, give a lift, a smile.