: About Me

Some people have difficult birthdays, especially past 30 years of age. But at 42, my perspective is different. I look back, not in years, but in accomplishments. The crazy loops that life takes you on can create a wacky looking resume.

I am a professionally trained, college educated actress who spent 4 years traveling around the country on a bus doing a singing, dancing commercial for a cruise line. That eventually brought me to Alaska as a tour guide, an international tourism/hotel sales manager at a ski resort, and a winter sports enthusiast. Somewhere in there I got married, moved to an island in the Puget Sound, had babies, and started riding the ferries and writing. I found my way back to Alaska, family in tow, as a stay-at-home mom turned entrepreneur with a tour guide business, a would-be fundraising guru for a local school, and the owner of a new puppy.

Along the way, I have taken up horseback riding, pottery, knitting, quilting, been a movie extra, and more. I use my acting skills when the opportunies arise. I have sung at tourism events in many different states and abroad. I recently gave a private session/lesson in audition techniques. Life is busy and hectic, but I appreciate the ride!

My passion is ...

Making things with my hands

I know too much about ...

Breastfeeding

My parents always told me ...

To brush my hair before leaving the house

My childhood ambition ...

To travel

My favorite memory ...

Cracking open a bottle of bubbly with a sword at a friend's house after becoming engaged in France.

Why I write ...

I get a sense of accomplishment as the words fill the page

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Parenting books, always. Science fiction sometimes. Happy stories.

My first job ...

Selling leather jackets at the mall for a nationwide company.

My best moment ...

Changes daily

My inspiration ...

My husband and my babies, my mother and my girlfriends!

Parenting & Pregnancy > After School Self-directed children's play

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To create independent play skills, children need to be allowed to develop their imaginative tools at an early age. They need to be shielded from excessive television, to have access to materials and toys that spark their interests, and to be allowed to make messes in pursuit of creating the world in their minds eye. They also need the participation of a loving adult early on, to ensure healthy separation and independence later on in their childhood play. As Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” A child’s innate sense of play is developed...

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