About Me
I am a writer, educator and lifelong lover of stories. My writing centers on authentic experiences with people, places and plants.
Growing up, I had what I believed was in idyllic childhood in the great, wild and untamed northern forests of America. I spent hours across the street from my home leaping puddles and climbing on vine covered trees. There, in this wonderland, I would enact grand tales of adventure with my brother and friends. It wasn’t until I was older that I realized the vast wilderness playground of my childhood was in fact just an overgrown urban stormwater ditch. This realization crystalized two things that has centered my life since: first, the transformative power of storytelling and, second, the intrinsic value of nature in people’s daily lives.
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