about me

I draw and paint and write and talk and sing and play music and cook and bake and sew and walk and ride my bike.  I love being with children. I’m a trained Montessori teacher and a former public radio host. Long ago I was an actor. I love theater and dance and music. 

I am a mother of 3 adults, who are each in their thirties….and I recently became a grandmother. 

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I fill small sketchbooks and journals with my drawing and writing.

 

I love crowded city streets and windswept mountaintops and sparkling blue water. Yellow used to be my favorite color, but right now it might be turquoise.  I favor summer, but I’ll take it all.  I love being outside, wherever, whenever. 

 

I swim in lakes and hike on trails and paddle on rivers.  There are so many people who inspire me everyday… and I thrive within my old and new friendships.  I love being a wife and a mother and a grandma and an aunt and a cousin and a daughter and a sister and a friend. I play the piano late at night.  I have tended a garden and shoveled snow and cooked dinner and cleaned the house and filled the little free library and hosted parties and raised our children and ridden my bike in Minneapolis for 41 years, alongside a man— my husband--who I have loved since I was 17.

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Montessori opportunities and a longing for New York City brought us to Brooklyn in the fall of 2021.  My husband is an actor, and together he and I have brought our thrifty, artistic and idealistic values to our apartment, which we’ve filled with furniture found on the street and at secondhand shops.  We love living here (although my accent will always disclose that the Midwest is my true home). I ride my bike to the school where I consult, along the East River. We go to museums and shows and talks. We wander everywhere.  We love to ride the ferry and host millions of guests.

 

I have a daily practice of drawing and writing.

 

I want to share my work with you.