About Me

Memoirist, poet, tattooed dragon girl, psychotherapist,  stick shift driving, mischievous, restored to sanity, sort of, Mid-West transplant living in the wilds of San Francisco.  Yes, it is foggy.

My blog is about my experiences living in San Francisco, with some flash backs to Wisconsin where I grew up, and a little side jaunt to that time I lived in Paris, working, loving, learning, and growing.

The blog began as an exercise to push myself to finish my first memoir, Baby Girl, and it became another monster entirely.  I write daily, well, I did until I started a PhD program in 2018, in a stream of conscious manner and I never know exactly what is going to come out.

It has grown and evolved just like me.

From a busgirl to a hostess, a waitress to a floor manager to a General Manager to a waitress again. From a veterinary assistant to a legal secretary to a nanny extraordinaire, to a world traveling writer, a bicycle shop girl, to an expat and back again.

From undergraduate to graduate student to PhD with my own private practice therapy business.

I have lived, and continue to strive for, a full, busy, burgeoning, amazing, outside the box life.

Welcome to the ride!