I never imagined myself becoming an author. A child of the 60s, drummer/percussionist, BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and MEd in Counseling from Antioch New England. I worked with court adjudicated youth as a family therapist, a coordinator of family services in residential programs and for the last 17 years of my 30 career, was the Executive Director of a small non-profit providing residential and community outreach services for pregnant and parenting teens. Certainly there was a lot of writing involved in my work, psychological assessments, family histories, court reports, grant writing, but not as a story teller.

In the early 90s I began taking classes at the Tracker School run by Tom Brown. In the 32 years I studied with Tom, my role evolved from student to working of special projects with Tom.

He then asked me to join his team of elders, who offered support to Tom and the students at the physical and online classes. Tom then had me take on the Caretaking lectures in the Standard and Advanced Standard classes.

Then Tom really surprised me, he told me we were writing a book together. Over the years I worked with Tom, he recognized potentials in me, I'd never seen in myself. To become an author was something I'd never considered, and then Tom led me to embrace writing and story telling with a passion that was new to me. This led to the creation of our book together: Tom Browns Guide to Healing the Earth, published by Penguin Random House, 2019.

I am currently working on a book with co-author, Rien de Rooij: Hidden Traditions of the Apache Scout and Ninja, Re-Awaken your 6th Sense. Our book brings together two traditions and the ways each tradition approaches awakening our non-physical skills of awareness and inner connection. Combined with the physical skills of the practice, the practicioner learns to enter more complete forms of awareness, unlocking deeper connections within themselves and with the Earth, through all elements of the natural world.

We do this through presenting lineage teachings from the Way of the Apache Scout as taught to Tom by Grandfather Stalking Wolf, alongside the traditions and the way of the Ninja as taught to Dr Masaaki Hatsumi, 34th Grandmaster of Togakure-ryu Ninjutsu, along with eight other traditions, he received from his teacher, Takamatsu Toshitsugu.