She was born and grew up in Cynthiana, Kentucky where she was gifted with a love for the natural world and an ear for story and song, often discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary. She asserts that storytelling strengthens the imagination and increases children’s capacities for problem solving, compassion and empathy. She believes that people are natural story creators, and that it is through stories that we consciously and unconsciously shape our lives and  our world.  Story and song are food for the imagination and essential to our capacity to have vision and hope.

She has done hundreds of residencies and teacher workshops. She has performed in schools, libraries, universities, hospitals and at festivals and conferences. She performs for children of all ages and for adults. She lives in Cynthiana and in West Suffield, CT. She is a member of the CT Performing Artist roster and the New England Performing Artist roster. She is a member of the CT Master Teacher Roster where she has received training in Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence theories. She is in training with Parker Palmer’s “Courage to Teach” work. She is also part of “Storytelling Arts” a non-profit storytelling organization which works in Trenton schools and does teacher workshops and summer institutes at Princeton Univ.