Hi! I'm a therapist living in Portland, Oregon which is a beautiful, cozy, and inspiring city. I tend to see life as marvelously sacred and marvelously wild, sort of like fire shooting out of your ears at midnight. I'm in the process of starting my first business here in Portland and really enjoing it so far. Before that, I lived in the Middle East and Eastern Europe and spent two wonderful years in Bulgaria as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Then I came back and worked as Senior Recruiter for the U.S. Peace Corps for a few years, running their recruiting campaigns for the California coast cities and encouraging as many people as possible to abandon ship and join. Maybe thats because I've always sensed that those who never risk themselves never quite fully become themselves either.

These days I think I am more interested in leaps of the internal kind. Definitely find that harder than jumping on any airplane to anywhere. My first love though is still writing and I have been working on and off on various projects very near and dear to my heart. If I could go back in time for just one hour it would be to hear Harry Chapin sing around a campfire in the mountains. How about you? Where would you go? Desert island books are anything by Herman Hesse, James Hollis, Anne Lamott, Robert Bly, Carl Whitaker, Audrey Niffenegger, Tove Jansson, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Johnson, or Kent Nerburn.

Thanks for stopping by and say hello.