What interesting people you all are! This is like a large room filled with lovely people engaged in laidback conversation that gives us each a glow. I hope someday to meet a good many of you in the flesh- but if not, it's OK because I already know you.

I have ended up with a much more satisfying life than I actually earned. Just yesterday I told a friend that if I didn't have music - a LOT of music- in my life I don't really know what kind of life I'd have, or whether I would even be alive today.

After a difficult time of it in early life, my first outlet was writing, fiction first and then children's fiction and then non-fiction. It got me through a lot of years of pain. Eventually I added art to the mix. It was much later that music became so important to me. Now and for the last 20 years or so, music and its people is a constant source of peace and serenity and creativity and excitement and just plain pleasure.

There really was no plan until about 15 years ago, sad to say. And now I've given even that up, since I no longer need to know.