I was born in London although my family sailed to Canada when I was five years old. My mother was a cultured lady who sent me for violin and music theory lessons when I was only six. But, as soon as I became a teenager, I began to lose interest in the violin and bought my first guitar. I taught myself how to play and quickly switched to a Fender Telecaster. Before long, I formed my first band and played locally. Within a few years I was gigging in various rock bands around the country. Music has always been my first love, and still is. I didn't start out as a writer but the mother of my college girlfriend predicted it. One Saturday afternoon, she was describing how her father was a missionary in Shanghai before World War II. As a girl in China she had studied palmistry, so she asked to see my hand. After a few minutes study she pronounced that I had a talent for writing. "One day you will become a writer," she said. Years passed before that writing talent manifested. But gradually my interest in writing, and especially research, increased. I loved digging behind the scenes to find out what was really happening beneath the headlines. That's how I became an investigative journalist. Now if you really like heartfelt blues/rock music, that's also where I feel very much at home. Almost all the music I listened to as a kid was from blues and soul singers, until the Beatles came along that is. But then, they also used to listen to those same soul singers when they were kids!

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