In the later years of my city life, I joined a small, supportive writer’s group in Brooklyn. The warm light of that community allowed me to re-discover my voice as a writer and gave me the courage to pursue graduate school. I moved out to the suburbs and earned an MFA in fiction writing.
In 2001, I returned to Kentucky where I still live with my partner Tracy (we met in high school.) He is also an artist, and a musician.
One day, sitting at my desk at the children’s section in a branch of the public library, a friend sent me a link to a blog. Immediately, I adopted this format for myself and began blogging. For years, this is where most of my writing energy was focused. I stopped making art, however, and channeled that energy into other pursuits, like baking wonky cakes and attending psychic development workshops.
In 2008, I completed Reiki training and attunement as well as several intuitive development workshops and began working professionally as an intuitive and energy healing facilitator.
During a snow storm in early 2015, I enrolled in an online painting course and came back to art-making, only this time it was all about intuitive flow rather than adhering to anyone else’s rules of artmaking. Painting moved back into the center of my creative expression.
I began to write my prayers and intentions on my canvas then paint intuitively. I had a dream that I did this for other people, which seemed pretty crazy, but I made the offer and people showed up. For several years, this is how I flowed in creativity and spirit. People sent me their wishes and prayers, and I created paintings for them.