I was born in 1972 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and attended Yale University (BA in Studio Art), Georgia State University (MFA in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking), and Goddard College (MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling / Expressive Arts Therapy).  I move through the world as a writer of creative non-fiction, socially-engaged artist, teacher, lover of movement, backpacker Dharma bum, companion of rescue pups, former Buddhist nun, and present-day expressive arts and somatic therapist. I've been around the block, tried many things, succeeded and failed, and carried my heart through many of this world's wild, beautiful, boring, terrible, sacred spaces.