I live in beautiful Northern California, 30 min from where I was born. I was raised in the Midwest and made my way back to California when I was 16. Aside from living four years in New Delhi India as a diplomat (which was AMAZING and I made the best friends there and experienced the coolest things), Northern and Southern California have been home.  

I turned 50 this year, which has brought on all manner of introspection, creating new goals, dreaming new dreams, and making darn sure that I’m living present, open, and adventurously. My biggest recent “accomplishment” has been completing 7 years since moving to a new home, reorienting to home, and making peace with my home. I’m STAYING, which is a big thing to declare after moving every 2-5 years my whole life. “Staying” requires a much different skill set. IYKYK.

Thanks to my dominant self-preservation instinct and repressed social instinct, I’m all at once pining for community and battling social anxiety and fear around not belonging. Yay!

I’m a spiritual and psychological seeker. I do “my work” everyday, ensuring integrity in my personal life and work life. 

A guiding verse from my first half of life, thanks Paul, was Philippians 4:13 “Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am” I used this verse to override my own needs for rest, play, and to be a human being. Breaking through perfection and coming to the other side into serenity and peace has required a daily practice of soaking in my hot tub, contemplative prayer, and throwing away the scale- physically and metaphorically. Psalm 46:10 is my guiding verse these days, “Be still and know that I am God.” 

I am grateful to my husband and life partner of 30 years(!!!), my four young adult children and daughter in law, my pastor Glenda at St. Luke’s in Walnut Creek, and the blessing of a bouquet of beautiful life long friends, living across the oceans and the US.