About Me

The daughter of a U.S. Naval officer, I realized, one night during a writing workshop exercise, that I have lived in well over 30 houses—in Spain, on the east coast of this country, and in Wyoming.  I would like to say that journaling and diaries sustained me during those many and tumultuous transitions, but it was, actually, my rock collection.  I no longer collect rocks as specimens.  Instead, as I hike on the western prairies, hills, and peaks, I add to the rock cairns that are frequent on the trails.  I even have tiny cairns in my house.  To me, they are something spiritual.  Of course, I eventually, and sometimes reluctantly, allowed writing in my life, and it has provided me sustenance.

"...and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world..."

- excerpt from "The Journey" by Mary Oliver