I am a writer & artist with a deep interest in the future of our world. I grew up on the East coast, but have lived more than half my 69 years on the West coast. I find myself more and more drawn to nature as teacher and solace.

Over the years, I've been a clerk, a technical writer, an art therapist, a teacher of community college art and poetry, a Master Food Preserver (which involves teaching) and probably a few other things I've forgotten. As with most elders, I find the current world sometimes baffling, sometimes infuriating, sometimes amazing, and I'm trying to write about the world that is now past, so that younger generations have some idea of what it was like.