Growing Up

Growing Up

This is as grown up as I get! I’m a fifth generation Californian, having had a German great great grandfather sail into Monterey Bay in the 1840’s, where he settled and remained all his life. Most fortunately, by the time I was born, his granddaughter (my...
My Family

My Family

Meet the amazing men in my life! For the past 25 + years my husband Luke and I have lived in the lovely Sierra Nevada foothills near Nevada City, CA, where we have raised two exceptionally fine sons. Tennyson is a media arts director living in San Francisco, and Bryn...
Writer and Playwright

Writer and Playwright

I've always loved storytelling and writing Photo Credit: Brett Hall I began writing songs and poetry about the same time I began studying guigar, at age eleven. My journal writing began with the gift of a blank book when I was nineteen. I decided to fill it and have...
Four-Footed Friends

Four-Footed Friends

Whispering to the four-footed ones My father was a great lover of dogs, and growing up, we always had at least two dogs. They were, however, my father’s dogs—his hunting dogs—and I never had the opportunity as a child to have my own puppy or dog. At the age of...