Writer. Storyteller. Picture taker. Photojournalism classes at Michigan State University, black-and-white film, and Dad's Konica SLR opened my imagination beyond syntax and sentence structure. (Still miss the second floor darkroom in Comm Arts, rolling film on metal spindles in the dark, the smell of stop bath on my hands, the "magic" paper, and laughing with April.) Trying to see the beauty in the small things each day. Still learning.

I delight in: Real Letter Writing, Reading, Swimming (including Nightswimming which deserves a quiet night), Strong Coffee, Wine, Dark Chocolate, Whiskey, Cardigan Collecting, Heels with Ankle Straps, Kickboxing, Beaches At Dusk, NPR, Ira Glass, Moleskine Notebooks, The Smell of Fires, Rides in Wooden Boats, Antiquing, Lake Michigan, Magazine Hoarding, Sad Songs.