If you really must know…

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I am a writer, long term care social activist, energy practitioner, wife and mother of two teens.

I am currently editing my first fiction manuscript, fighting for federal legislation and planning for… (shh, not ready to be announced yet.)

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As a traveler, I rode the waters of the Seti in Nepal, wandered lost in the Rabat medina and studied with a shaman in Ubud, Bali.

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As a social activist, I am the co-founder of a national grassroots advocacy organization and recently announced federal legislation, I helped write, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

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As an energy practitioner, I founded the Breathing Room wellness studio in NY and am a member of healing collectives in Ventura and Ojai, CA.

As a wife and mother, I have loved in a Brooklyn railroad apartment, on an Accidental Farm in upstate NY and on the shores of Ventura, CA.

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What follows on these pages is the adventures of living bravely, documenting the essence of being and trying to hold onto a slice of sanity as we go.