Canadian, raised in boarding schools, single-parented seven daughters, initated food co-op, had a government career in middle and senior management (now retired - if that is what one could say about writing! :) volunteer work has included Crisis Line, the disabled, immigrants and refugess centre and Jazz festivals. I am a Vipassana Meditator. Lived in India, US and England, Belize and Yucatan. Ran an authors group to help each other learn which publishing route to choose, how to publicize and market books and, designed and distributed a catalogue Beaconhill Books on and off line. It does not exist now. I've lived an eclectic life with lost of moving around, met a myriad of peoples in the world and am always curious to learn more. I am also on a spiritual quest.

  

Certificates for educational accomplishments: Interviewing Skills, Supervision, Financial Management, Economic Development for Northern Canada, at retirement - Palliative Care, Changes in Mental Functioning, Teaching English as a Second Language. Initiated two safe houses for battered women, fundraiser for women's organizations and the disabled, past President of a polictical group and a low-income parents organization and negotiator for union of 1200 from in the 70's. Then 10 years living in the arctic travelling throughout as an employment/employer counsultnt, then a senior management in the Northwest Territories government.

Self-published in September 2000 a book of short stories written by "Women Who Lived and Loved North of 60", including one of mine. 2nd edition in 2022 with more stories, photos and northern map Agust 2009 published a biography on a remarkable Canadian painter Thomas Mower Martin 1838-1934, my great grandfather. I am now marketing prints of several of his paintings.