Welcome to the Site

I have always wanted to write.  At age seven, I began making little books to share with my family and friends and acting out the parts of the stories for my dolls and stuffed animals.  My first choice of a career was in writing and journalism.  Family and friends, however, discouraged me from doing so because they were afraid I could not make a decent living.  My second love was traveling and foreign language.  I took French, Spanish and German in college, majoring in French and minoring in Spanish.  It was thrilling to travel myself and later to take students abroad for study.  Although I loved that part of my life, I developed a fascination with the law, received a Juris Doctorate and became a practicing attorney.

The practice of law was very fulfilling;  but after a long career, I decided to return to my first love – writing. I had satisfied my writing desire, in part, through writing for the California Law Review at Berkeley Law and drafting briefs as a part of my law practice.  Writing well is a skill that is paramount to being a successful attorney.  But I yearned to drop the formality and rules of legal writing and pursue my craft in a freer mental and creative space.