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Born in Lansing, Michigan on October 11, 1953. Brought up in a family of two girls and two boys at St. Therese Diocese; my father was a bricklayer, my mother a teacher. I always loved to read and write and was interested in people from other countries and cultures from an early age.
My older brother died during the one month out of the year when we were both 18. What a time of troubles! I kicked over my Catholic upbringing and became active in an election to make abortion available to women in 1972. This early feminist phase led to joining the Feminist Women's Health Center in Los Angeles and working in an abortion clinic. I was part of the book team that wrote, "A New View of a Woman's Body."
As part of my political education, I studied Marxist-Leninism and read Mao's little red book. At a young age, I understood how capitalists exploited people and nature and supported their search for ever greater markets and higher profits with militarism.
I went through an unstable time which made me decide never again to let anger be my dominant emotion. It took me a long time to figure out that I was an empath and to learn the practices that keep me balanced. In the process of defining boundaries and protecting myself, I withdrew from a family with conservative values that increasingly clashed with my new beliefs.
I returned to college and earned a Library Media Technical Assistant's Certification, finishing my first academic degree program with an A.A. I continued at San Diego State University to earn a journalism degree, with emphasis on public relations. I studied Spanish and attended a summer program in Saltillo, Coahuila to gain fluency. Later I attended Michigan State University for a master's degree in applied linguistics to teach English to speakers of other languages.
All of my moves and jobs between California and Michigan, then to Japan and Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, and Washington comprise a long saga that nobody in their right mind would wand to read. Suffice it to say, I bounced around a lot, falling back on temporary secretarial work and swinging in and out of teaching ESL the past twenty years. I also shifted in and out of grassroots activist politics, campaigning in elections of politicians I supported, working on environmental and feminist issues, remaining a free spirit as much as possible and keeping the voice of dissent alive.
My son was born September 20, 1986. I raised him as a single mother, loving and cherishing him, wanting a good future for him, wanting him to become a whole, healthy man. He is now 21 and on his own. I am working my way around the world, teaching English, maybe writing a book or two, following a shamanic spiritual path and meeting others in the family of lightworkers that I am active in to bring about peace, love, harmony and goodwill to Earth. Last year I taught in Andorra in Europe. This year I am teaching in Qingdao in China.
My gifts are many, a talent for languages, the ability to articulate my thoughts easily and communicate them, inner strength and resilience, courage, and fortitude. I have a rich inner life that keeps me company whereever I go and a deep appreciation for nature that is an unending source of wonder. I am blessed with a good mind, very positive energy, healing powers, self-discipline, and a proclivity to mysticism tempered with a practical nature and tendency to organize. I am somewhat of a wild woman and overly domesticated dogs are afraid of me. I have a fierce temper and am unafraid to stand alone against the crowd. I have the courage of my convictions.
