I grew up in Brooklyn, NY. I remember being in elementary school and the art teacher came into the room and announced that he was going to give us an assignment and after that he was going to pick one student who would study with him in a special art class afterschool. He ended up picking me. I was so excited. I loved to draw!

In junior high school, one day in art class, a fellow student said to me: "If you don't become an artist, well, I just don't know what!" But I was interested in everything, not just drawing. I was interested in acting and dance and music. I studied the piano, and I loved it. I studied modern dance and I loved that too. I was involved in the school plays and also in community theatre, and I loved doing that as well.

After high school, I took an illustration class at the School of Visual Arts. It was there that I began to work with pen and ink. I took my pad and pen with me and I drew wherever I went. On the subway, in my kitchen, in the park, in my Dad's bike shop... wherever I went.

Then I studied theatre at the North Carolina School of the Arts. (I kept drawing there too.) I was particularly interested in pantomime. However, after two years studying theatre, I transferred to Hunter College in NY. It was there that I was introduced to abstract painting. It was wonderful.

I also studied graphic design at the Parsons School of Design in NY and that was pretty cool too. (I kept drawing there too.)

After graduating from Hunter College, I got a job as a typesetter. I figured that that would be a good job to support myself while I became an artist. That was all I wanted to do with my life: become some kind of artist. (Except I wasn't sure what kind of artist I wanted to be, I was interested in so many different kinds of creative expression.) I learned to play the guitar. That ended up being a lot of fun, because I would hang out in Central Park with all the other guitarists and we would just play together. It was very cool and down to earth. And sometimes night would fall and we'd be there singing and playing and there would be candles lit, and it was a really groovy scene. There was a real feeling of togetherness and peace. It was really nice.

(I kept drawing there too.)

Then I studied improvisational theatre at HB Studios and writing for performance at The Writer's Voice in NY. I also studied jazz dance, African dance and singing in NY.

Then I got married and had children. I would walk around and around Central Park with my two sons. They played in the playground. I watched.

(I kept drawing there too.)

Then our apartment was too small for two adults and two growing boys, so we moved to the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. It was very lonely for me at first, so I began to write. I wrote every day. Soon I met another woman who loved to write too. We became good friends and then we collaborated on a play called: "Two Women Talking" which we performed at the Hughes Library in Stroudsburg. I also performed original monlogues and scenes with the Water Gap Players in the Celebration of the Arts Festival and at the Deerhead Inn. (The Deerhead Inn was (and still is) a really cool jazz club which was another place where I was able to find great subjects to draw!)

I currently work as a paraprofessional in an elementary school for the East Stroudsburg School District. There, I employ any and all means of creative expression to enhance the elementary school experience. I've written songs that teach the curriculum and I've performed them for the students. I've used theatre games and yoga to help the children have fun and feel good. I've also done a lot of drawing there. Kids are fun to draw and when they see themselves in pen and ink on paper they get very intrigued!

I've also danced with Kathy Kroll's Dance and Paper Theatre Company based in Stroudsburg, PA. I've taught theatre to children at the Tottsgap Art Institute in Bangor, PA, and I've taught pantomime and mask-making at the School of Visual and Performing Arts in Stroudsburg, PA.

(And I'm still drawing, wherever I go.)