Bio ::

Collage is the medium I claim as an artist.

I have lived in Three Rivers, California since 1977.  I came here often as a child in the 1950's and later as an adult to visit my grandmother, aunt and uncle who lived here.

I am founder and organizer of the Three Rivers Biennial Artists' Studio Tour, started in 1994.

Forty years ago, I graduated from nursing school in Atlanta.  Once a nurse, always a nurse. Reluctantly.

As a teacher and facilitator for The Deeper Well, I guide retreats about authentic work and moving beyond burnout (with CE's for California and Nevada nurses.)

Early each morning I write a 140 character burnout blip on twitter first @burnoutblip then again @thedeeperwell.  This practice was started on February 19, 2009, to get me writing (...now several blogs later.)

I also offer life coaching sessions for burnout processing.

Cort Cottage Bed and Breakfast is the private guest cottage I have hosted since 1986, near Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.  It is located 4 miles from the main entrance to the Park.

I have practiced craniosacral work since 1998, and also feng shui (the other side of the same energywork coin.) This work has profoundly changed my life.

I love to share ideas.  My friends say I talk a lot.  I was born this way, just can't help it much. I am now living the second half of my life-collage.

PS...a word about the name of my art collection. It comes from the Sanskrit word parayana, meaning "the other shore"...represents the realm of no-birth, no-death, and no suffering...We cannot talk about it, we cannot conceive it...The true teaching is that the other shore is this very shore...

from Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh