My Five P’s
Pursuits
God, abundance, fulfillment, joy, and beauty
Personality
INFJ (introvert, introspective, feeling, judgment) per Myer-Briggs
Pleasures
travel, gardening, reading, concerts, walks, museums, dinner with friends
Preferences
summer, small towns, period films, comedy, instrumental music, herbal tea,
Peeves
noise, dishonesty, cussing, cold weather, troublemakers, weeds
Photo credit: Bridge, Magnolia Plantation South Carolina
Career
Photo credit: John Muir Museum, Martinez CA, 2023
With a degree in Music Education, I worked for private and public schools as a classroom K-8 music teacher, and taught piano lessons on the side. I also served in various churches as pianist, organist, and choir director — a job that I still do to this day. I’ve retired from music classroom teaching, but still maintains my piano studio at home for children and adults.
I became a mother at the age of thirty-two, and after raising three boys, I now consider motherhood as a lifetime “career”.
Writing
Memoir Writing, Ink — a 12-week on-line writing course by Alison Wearing, June, 2021
“Arne” — a memoir about a son’s disability; long-listed in the International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir Writing, 2022; published on the website of United Leukodystrophy Foundation; March 2023
Tuscany Writing Retreat —a seven-days retreat by memoirist, educator Alison Wearing, April 2023
West Coast Christian Writers Conference – a two-day workshop, Nov 2024, Roseville, CA
Micro Memoir Writing Workshop — a 4-week online course by writer Rayya Liebich, Oct 2024
In Mt. Diablo’s Shadow, Anthology, Vol. 7 – includes my two poems Elegy, and The Seasons, and How People Saw Me, a short story. Published by the City of Brentwood, CA. Nov 2025