artist. writer. teacher
about me

I draw and paint and write and talk. I love being with children. I used to work in public radio with a specialty in parenting issues. I have been a Montessori teacher in Minnesota and New York, with a long stint as a head of school in Minneapolis. I provide speaking services, freelance illustration, and learning sessions for Montessori students of all ages.
I fill small sketchbooks and journals with my drawing and writing. I love crowded city streets and windswept mountaintops. Yellow used to be my favorite color but right now it might be fuchsia. I swim in lakes and hike on trails and paddle on rivers. I play the piano late at night. I have grown a garden and shoveled snow and cooked dinner and hosted parties and raised our children and ridden my bike in Minneapolis for 38 years.
I moved to New York City in the fall of 2021. I'm making a home here for a while. I'm learning to love Brooklyn (Ft. Greene in particular) and to ride my bike to the school where I teach , along the East (Hudson) River. At the middle of 2023, I feel uncertain and hopeful. I want to be a better citizen of the planet and a voice for equity in all I do. I am learning to live with fierce and open gentleness.
In my sixties, it feels imperative to muscle into my art.
I have a daily practice of drawing and writing.
I want to share my work with you.

My watercolor portrait of George Floyd was exhibited in the
NorthStar Watermedia National Juried Exhibition
Wildwood Library /Mahtomedi, Minnesota