She received her bachelor's degree in English from the University of Florida and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

A radical feminist and atheist for over 20 years, she returned to Catholicism in her forties,[1] a conversion journey she wrote about in her book, Confessions of an Ex-Feminist.

: Finding Hope When You Have Breast Cancer, and Grace Notes: Embracing the Joy of Christ in a Broken World.

Her essays on Christian themes appear in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Georgia Bulletin, and the National Catholic Register.

She won the first place Catholic Press Association award for "Best regular column - family life" in 2014.