About Me

I am a full-time mom, a part-time college English instructor, and an entrepreneur who sells vintage clothing on ebay and at flea markets and festivals. I live way out in the boonies because it is gorgeous here, but the isolation can sometimes make me a bit loopy. I can’t just shuffle my daughter off to the latest toddler music class or play group or find a babysitter so my husband and I can go on a date. Besides, we’d have to pay the babysitter while we’re driving over an hour to get somewhere worth going on a date. Instead, we all spend a lot of time together, not necessarily paying attention to each other, but together. We hike, swim in the river, berry-pick,  garden, take long walks down dirt roads admiring the mountains and yelling at the crazy dogs, snowshoe and ski in the winter, write, play music, hot tub, read, watch movies, and use any excuse we can make-up to go on a road trip or fly off to some exotic location, kid in tow.  Though we may live in the middle of nowhere without a T.V., we are very connected to the outside world, sometimes too connected, and all that silly stuff happening out there.

Before I was a mom, I grew up and went to college in upstate NY, the Hudson Valley. Soon after college, I got in my Jeep with my dog and headed west. After much roadtripping across the country, I settled in Seattle for a couple of years before making an even greater migration north to Alaska where I spent another 5 years both on and off the road system, living without plumbing, chopping my wood and hauling my water, making due in a fly-in Athabascan village and working with kids. That’s where I met my husband. After backpacking across Asia for 6 months, we decided to move to the mountains of Northern New Mexico where we currently reside. Soon after marrying, we got pregnant and I entered the world of motherhood, both with great honor and great hesitation. Now, I spend my days in the intellectual and spiritual pursuit of life’s most important questions while changing diapers and sweeping cheerios off the floor.