As one of six siblings, I grew up on a farm in Gainesville, VA. During high school, I attended Sandy Springs Friends School in Maryland. College was at Denver University, where I attended their Junior Year Abroad program in Vienna Austria, and graduated with a BA in Fine Arts and a minor in German.
While attempting to start an art career in Denver, CO; Richmond, VA; Sunnyvale, CA; and Seattle, WA, I managed to stay afloat with a string of minimum wage jobs. In Seattle, I sold my old Ford for a flight back in Richmond, where I found work in a typist pool, learned shorthand, and moved up to a secretary position. During this time, I attended computer classes at night.
Those were the years of my 20’s and early 30’s, during which I wrote most of my poetry. After I landed a job in software development, the constant overtime left poetry by the wayside.
I am currently living in Savannah, GA. I paint, write poetry, develop minor apps, go on sunrise walks, and teach yoga.