Two experiences changed the direction of my life: a nasty hand injury convinced the doctors I would never perform again on the piano or organ. For years I took painting lessons from a Stanford Professor in exchange for teaching his child piano. I regained the use of my hand through many hours of excercise and am still performing professionally today. I couldn’t give up the painting, however and went on to have several one woman shows in California with my oil paintings, mosaic, and stained glass work at the Cellini Gallery and the Lucien Labaudt Gallery in San Francisco, in Sausalito, and two different shows at Stanford University. I studied Picture Book Illustration with Thacher Hurd, currently edit a college literary publication and teach Writing for Fun and Profit and Writing a Book at Chabot College.