Have been all over the the United States and the world, vagabond since the early 1970s. I've been a professional, full time writer since Moses lost his shoes. I'm a certified, professionally trained ghostwriter - ready to help people with great ideas turn them into books. I'm a tech guru for baby boomers in my spare time!

Got six kids. My six grands are all under 4 years old. I'm a Chicago native and have returned to that area to spin out the rest of my journey. I love empowering women, especially myself.

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How did you get to where you are now?

Very carefully - trying to stay out of trouble form the days of the wild sixties to the very intimidating 21st Century. I have a can't quit work ethic and a stubborn detemrination to master everything before I leave this planet.

How do you see yourself differently now than you did 10 years ago?

I love myself and where I am. I have been there, done that, and learned what i could from all of it. I never even consider negotiating my truths now. I don't worry about paltry junk - I focus my energies on the big picture. I do worry about the condition of the world.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Right here. Still writing and still empowering. Maybe a few fewer deadlines.

Having a wonderful time - wish you had believed more in yourself and had taken less to heart the nasty things people can feed you along the way.

hugs and kisses -

me.

In an odd way, my grandmother for her patience and tenacity, though I am not in any way as traditional as she was.

A good friend from 30 years ago with whom I just reconnected - she has such a strong center and sense of her own spirit. That's the piece I need to still develop.

Dorothea Lang (photographer in the depression FSA-OWI collection)- what an eye she had and what courage to look so closely at those times and, without flinching, show the reality. I wish my camera could do that.

Whoopi Goldberg - she is truer to herself than, perhaps, anyone else I have ever considered.

Trying hard to think of a male here - I suppose my dad...he gav eme the work ethic. I softened it to be more humane. He gave me strength, but not a postive self image.