Why do I write? There should be an easy answer to this question but I'm darned if I can find one. Sometimes my heart aches over my many losses and at other times I am overjoyed by the way things have turned out. I was an emotionally troubled child who was not allowed to just BE ME, so it has taken me a long time to make the discovery of just who I am and how I fit in this world.

I rarely spoke, except to siblings and a few friends, and my husband of 10 years, when he allowed it but I did have an ultra rich inner world where all the color and savy and bravery was nicely hidden, til one day, just out of the blue as it were, I began to voice my opinions about a lot of things. I became dangerous to some and my family was horrified by this sudden outburst and very quickly labeled me "untouchable." After all, who has ever heard a mouse roar like a lion after decades of acting all mousy with everyone? I can't blame them though as they prefer to remain mices or mice, or mouses.

So here I am roaring loudly and unapologetically from my little mouse hole in the wall of my den. This somewhat rapid evolution has sometimes taken me by surprise when I hear stuff coming out of my mouth with such authentic conviction. I'm getting use to it, to speaking of what I know, of what I love, and of what might assist any other mouses who wish to roar.

I earned a degree in Social work a few years ago and have also worked as a preschool teach and a practical nurse. But my first love is painting, followed closely by writing. Combining the two has been such fun as of late, so I think I'll just keep doing it until it isn't fun any more. Then I'll do something else.

Another part of my brain can be found musing over grand questions arising from such disciplines as mathematics; quantum physics, the matrix, string theory, chaos thoery, probability, fractals, Pi, the golden ratio, the place number 0, and photon entanglement.

I use to dance Hawaiian dance a few years ago. I've painted a 44 ft. mural for a children's play, and I use to fly single engine aircraft. I also have a kazillion paintings floating around in our town, our gallery, and in our home.  yikes!

Favourite movies: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Little Voice, Shirely Valentine, Metropolis, Fargo, Anything else by the Coen Bros., August Rush, In Debt We Trust, Duck, Nosferatu, The Sea Inside, Vitus, Where the Green Ants Go To Dream, many other foreign films, Itallian, French, Polish, Belgian, German, Australian.