I have thought of myself as a writer since before I could write. I remember "writing" on bits of paper on the floor of our fifth-story tenement in the Bronx when I was three or four years old, mimicking lines of text I thought of as letters or stories.
I was born in New York City in 1951. My mother and step-father moved my brother and me along a zigzag course across the country for the next few years, until we settled in Reno, Nevada, where I grew up. I have inherited this wanderlust and try to take at least one cross-country road trip every year or two.
In 1977-78 my then-husband, three small children and I moved to Taegu, South Korea, where we lobbied for support for a technical training institute for Amerasian children and young adults. (See my memoir, Legacy of Guilt.) After returning home I returned to school and earned two Associate degrees at Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC) in Reno, where I was an award-winning student journalist and editor. After transferring to the University of Nevada-Reno (UNR) I became the first woman elected editor of the student newspaper, The Sagebrush. For a time I was forced to leave school and work full-time. I earned a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from UNR in 1993.
I have been a newspaper and magazine writer, reporter, and production manager; federal public housing program administrator; administrative liaison at the world headquarters of General Motors; and law enforcement public service officer. And I've held a few "just to pay the bills" jobs I'd rather forget.
After many years in Seattle, I moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, where I now reside with a rescued Golden Retriever, one cat, two rabbits, one Betta fish, and an Australian tree frog named Mithril - the template of this web site should suggest where he got his name. My animals live long lives: Mithril, who was expected to live four years, is now six. I once had a cat who lived 24 years and a dog 17.
I am the proud grandma of two girls and twin boys. I have been active in social and ceremonial programs for Native American women and men incarcerated at the Nebraska State Penitentiary and Community Corrections Center. I do enjoy reading, gardening, movies and television, knitting, crochet, animals, and publish web pages for fun.
Since 1998 I have published a web site dedicated to Mick Jones of the rock group Foreigner. Mick Jones Panorama has won numerous web awards. According to Mick, one of his friends told him, "I learned more about you reading that web site than I have being your friend for twenty years!"
I write non-fiction, fiction and poetry, and am a frequent reader at local literary groups and poetry open mics. I am working on my second book-length
manuscript, a fantasy fiction story entitled Mondream Wood.