I live in my native lands, the beautiful Pacific Northwest with my family, including a hard-of-hearing son and a daughter who loves to shout. I’m a massage therapist by training, but my current full-time job is stay-at-home Mom.

I eat as many real foods as I can and avoid the fake stuff, I walk in a mostly meandering fashion (but always with a decent pack), I read mostly fiction, and I write mostly non-fiction. I live with gratefulness, happiness, and a good sense of humor (not always in that order).

I love to hang out with friends and family, and I love to be alone. I try to live as sustainably as possible, and I have fantasies of a very minimalist lifestyle, while simultaneously being physically unable to leave REI without a bag load of stuff. I knit socks, take pictures, study aromatherapy, scratch my corgi behind his radio-antennae ears, coax my elderly labrador to play ball, attempt the fiddle, go outside, read the news, and play games. Our household hosts a weekly game night for friends and their kiddos, where we delve into things like Fluxx, Settlers of Catan, and other strategy games. We also delve into the occasional pizza. I’ve also been known to play a little World of Warcraft.