writer
podcaster
storyteller
I write about love, loss, and the crazy, unexpected paths that shape us. My debut novel Follow the Sky is slated for publication in 2026.
“The rain has stopped. A spiderweb survived the rain and glistens in the clouded light. Fig leaves have fallen from the trees, yet baby figs stay sprouted to the branches. I am calmer. Soothed by the rain and the hope it brings.”
Growing up in Los Angeles, I was surrounded by art and entertainment. My mother was an actress and my father was an art dealer. I loved art, but painting wasn’t my calling. I was good at singing and dancing, and at 18, became the youngest member of Dean Martin’s Goldiggers.
When The Golddiggers signed on for a USO tour in Vietnam, my parents had other plans for me: college. That’s where I found my true love—journalism and creative writing.
When I’m not writing, I’m hiking the trails near the Hollywood Sign with my Golden Retriever Captain, taking photos, and co-hosting Late Boomers, the podcast that celebrates reinvention and life after 50.
Check out my prose and poetry in the anthology series Twenty-Minute Stories and the poetry anthologies FRE&D.
“He took me to a faraway place where orange and white Monarch butterflies rose off milkweed in a sunrise of color. Where boats furled their sails on their way back home; where untethered balloons jousted over land and sea like magic carpets, never wanting to land. He was healing rain for me.”
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