I was born and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Traveling at age 11 to Vancouver and Disneyland with my grandmother instilled a love of travel. As a college student I traveled through Italy and France, and across Canada by bus and train, fishing boat and hitchhiking. After college I traveled to Europe and across the Soviet Union on the TransSiberian railway. Crossing the Sea of Japan from Vladivastok to Osaka, I studied in Japan, then traveled back to North America by way of Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Hawaii. My travels took me to Europe, India (where I worked with a medical missionary treating lepers in Kashmir) and Asia (where I studied batik, and taught in Hong Kong and in Beijing). Returning to North America, I worked as a reference librarian in the Canadian Consulate in New York and also studied photography at the International Center of Photography. After the retirement of my husband, we moved to Bennington, Vermont where we thrive on hiking, kayaking, cross-country skiing and other outdoor activities with the local Green Mountain Club as well as involvement in Second Congregational Church and the community’s Restorative Justice program. I am a member of the ShapeShifters Improvisional Dance troupe which has performed around Bennington, including at the museum, at Bennington College, at the JuneArts! Celebration, and which has offered liturgical dance accompanied by my poetry. Over time I have documented this life thru paintings, photography, and poetry — I present some of these here.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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I was born and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Traveling at age 11 to Vancouver and Disneyland with my grandmother instilled a love of travel. As a college student I traveled through Italy and France, and across Canada by bus and train, fishing boat and hitchhiking. After college I traveled to Europe and across the Soviet Union on the TransSiberian railway. Crossing the Sea of Japan from Vladivastok to Osaka, I studied in Japan, then traveled back to North America by way of Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Hawaii. My travels took me to Europe, India (where I worked with a medical missionary treating lepers in Kashmir) and Asia (where I studied batik, and taught in Hong Kong and in Beijing). Returning to North America, I worked as a reference librarian in the Canadian Consulate in New York and also studied photography at the International Center of Photography. After the retirement of my husband, we moved to Bennington, Vermont where we thrive on hiking, kayaking, cross-country skiing and other outdoor activities with the local Green Mountain Club as well as involvement in Second Congregational Church and the community’s Restorative Justice program. I am a member of the ShapeShifters Improvisional Dance troupe which has performed around Bennington, including at the museum, at Bennington College, at the JuneArts! Celebration, and which has offered liturgical dance accompanied by my poetry. Over time I have documented this life thru paintings, photography, and poetry — I present some of these here.
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