My undergraduate degree is in Political Science/Pre-Law from a small liberal arts college in northwestern PA.  I earned my Master Degree, in environmental law, from Vermont Law School - a great school in the small village of South Royalton. My career in environmental planning, conservation and education has spanned two decades. I have worked in both the public and private sectors directing hazardous waste abatement operations, pollution prevention activities, policy and procedural development, watershed planning and all related education and outreach. I am also adjunct faculty at a local campus of the University of Pittsburgh where I offer courses in Governance & Leadership of Non-profit Organizations, Environmental Politics, and Grant Writing. Throughout my entire career, I have always tried to incorporate my art to my work. Now that I am self-employed through "stewARTship studios" (a creation brought about through a collision of my right and left brain functions), I can get as creative or as analytic as I like linking my two great loves - nature and art.  Finally, I am a life-long, self-taught student/observer of world religions and spirituality.  I tend toward pantheism, as is evident in my writing, and am very interested in ecopsychology.

Stewards of Spirit
Website that links to my book entitled Stewards of Spirit: Awakening in the Light of Rachel's Ballads

My favorite authors include Rumi, Thoreau (and most Transcendentalists), Wayne Dyer, Lord Byron, Jane Goodall, Lama Anagarika Govinda, Susan Chernak McElroy, C. J. Jung, Henry Ward Beecher, Albert Einstein, and Evelyn Underhill, among others. I love to read and learn many perspectives on life and spirituality and seek the Universal Truths from all. Two of my favorite quotes: "No companion was ever so companionable as solitude."~Henry David Thoreau AND "To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful."~Carl Jung