I feel an overwhelming zest for life, a curiosity for all things and compelled to give my best at all times.
Like most, my background is diverse and varied, too. For years, I've worked as a freelance journalist writing in-depth features on a variety of subjects for newspapers and magazines and slice-of-life stories.
I earned my B.A. in journalism with a minor in English from California State University, Northridge. Since I never stopped taking classes throughout my life, I’d gathered enough units to graduate from CSUN in two semesters with a hundred or so units left over, and was awarded the Society of Professional Journalist (SPJ) Most Outstanding Senior.
Writing is my passion in life. Currently I work as a freelance writer/journalist. When I have the time, I work on my childhood memoir about my brother's and my adventures as very young children, as we traveled across the U.S.A. with our artist mother and writer father. After I finish my memoir, I plan to work on Moving Your Life: How to Avoid the Horror Stories When Using Moving Company, inspired by my own moving experience gone bad. In Boston, I studied filmmaking and made a film about natural childbirth, a subject close to my heart. In another life I was a childbirth educator and labor coach.
Speaking about another life, I always loved to creating characters and take them to the stage. Katrina, my clown character, performed throughout Southern California and Aspen, Colorado at parties, large events, and street performing. Also, during that time period, I studied and performed stand-up-comedy and a few years later taught stand-up comedy and helped my students’ touch their own comedic self and take their act to the stage. In college, as an adult I was in plays and also created and performed comedic characters like Clarissa, a former college professor who dropped out of society and became a bag lady. Another character, Dr. Gwendolyn Baumgartner, a clinical psychologist was a relationship expert even though she'd never had one.
Life's been colorful for me and full. The second half I suspect will be even better.
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