This website is a place to showcase all of my work in one spot. As the homepage states, I am a writer, a weaver, and a storyteller (among other things).

I am also an information professional, folklorist, and former children’s services librarian.

I recently imported my reader’s advisory and book review website content as well as my fiber art website content to this website and am currently working on structuring, organizing and creating pages. (I got tired of having three different websites, but wasn’t ready to just let everything go…)

While I can understand the mainstream conventions for having websites devoted to just one thing, I’m tired of operating that way. I’m tired of trying to “fit in” to other people’s conventions. I’ve always been interested in more than more thing.

Recently, I learned that writing for oneself is often one’s most difficult assignment. I know it’s always been hard for me. 

I’m understanding now (later in life) that part of that has to do with how my brain operates. I know I have often felt that I am very different from many others – not just because of my family, upbringing, mixed ancestry, and the unknowing that comes from adoption procedures, but from how I learn new things, build upon that knowledge, and process feelings and emotions. I am a middle aged woman with ADHD.

And because I have ADHD, sometimes it very much does seem like Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (2022). How can I possibly know what’s important to put on an About page, when everything is connected to everything else?

I’ve learned from watching YouTube with my son (tween) that lots of people take unconventional paths and succeed in their goals. I feel as if I have often struggled with the success part. And I know that success looks differently for everyone, so I should focus upon what’s going right. 

Weaving has been amazing since returning to Tucson. I’m learning new techniques and able to show up for monthly tapestry study group meetings with the Tucson Handweavers and Spinners Guild.

I’m following my path, seeking advice, but not necessarily blindly following others just because they have been successful going a certain route. I’m working on integration, rather than separation. Down to a cellular level.

One of my more recent favorite children’s books for adults is The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey authored and illustrated by Jason Chin (2022). It explains with precise detail how what humans are made from on a cellular level is the same as everything else in the universe. It’s a picture book that brings science alive. And it makes me think about the various universes living within me.

So here I am. I contain multitudes.

I am a life-long learner, storyteller, and artist.

I am also an educator, mother, adoptee, and opinionated woman.

Updated April 7, 2025.