The second oldest of six children, Clarice was raised on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She married early, and she and her husband were blessed with two sons and a daughter. While raising her family, Clarice squeezed in a few English literature, creative writing, and marketing courses. She continued along that path, writing articles for local publications, marketing copy for her employers, and newsletters for her church.
In 1982, Clarice began a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus. She says, “My life has not been the same since!”
When her husband Terry died in 1998, she continued writing as part of her healing process. In 2006, she remarried and moved to southern New Hampshire. “David was a keeper,” she says, “and all grown up when I got him.” Sadly, she was widowed again in 2021, just shy of fifteen years of marriage.
Clarice has written five women’s contemporary novels. Her stories are woven together with colorful threads of humor, faith, romance, and surprise. In 2022, she added Say Grace: A Scriptural Field Guide to Weight Loss to her list of published works. She’s working on the second in the Say Grace series, titled A Scriptural Field Guide to Grieving the Death of a Spouse.
Clarice says, “I credit my father for showing me the power of dreams and my mother for teaching me the value of working to achieve them.”
