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All of the arts interested me: 

Dance, drama, painting, writing and playing the alto sax. It was difficult to settle on just one...

but fate made the call.

Studying fine art at the university... 

Was a dream I finally got to fulfill. In addition to painting; I added French, criminology, negotiating, mime, drama and a plethora of courses. In essence, I was a professional student. My painting focused on the female form because of dance studies, for over a decade, observing the female body in a leotard. At twenty-two, I renewed my vision and planned on auditioning for the Houston Jazz Ballet, but did a silly thing. I took up skydiving and shattered my ankle very badly. I tell people...

"I fell into painting!"

Between 1982, 1990 and 1994...

I lost my younger brother: A suicide by cop. Dad died in my arms three years later, after smoking himself to death. Mom passed in 1988, my father-in-law in 1989. Then, my husband was found in his car with a bullet through his heart. I suspect foul play. We were to reunite after ten years. The straw that broke me, completely, was the loss of our 'lovely abode by the sea' in 1993/4. I designed and watched it go up as my son grew in my belly. 

What was to be my sons' legacy. Every time I'd get back to my art, another loss occurred.The saving grace was renting the Artists' Loft in Jersey City.

Little did I know, it was by water... 

I begin anew... 

Alfred Stieglitz once told his wife, Georgia O'Keeffe:"To be a fine artist and paint commercially, 

is like being a virgin in the morning and a prostitute, in the afternoon. This is paraphrasing...but it is true. 

Add, that painting murals took me away from my burgeoning style.

I am excited to paint. 

I don't know what will come: But when the music is playing...(and it is always playing): 

sometimes, I get lucky. I'm coming out of a l-o-n-g struggle to finish a painting. I can certainly get excited about the first day, 

but I get bored if I don't complete the work within the first sitting. What's up? Anyway, to borrow a phrase:

"Don't die with your music still in you."

Reiki, Reiki

I use Reiki on myself, my  family and friends. It is not a religion. You do not have to b-e-l-i-e-v-e in it. 

It simply works. It is time to heal ourselves: and in so doing, it will heal Mother Earth. 

If you would like an in home, or distance  Reiki session, please use the contact form to message me. 

Thank You. 

GOD BLESS AMERICA