My life has been so good.  I've learned and loved and laughed a lot.  Born in Pennsylvania, I attended parochial schools there and got a splendid education.  We moved to Calif. in 1958 and my life changed forever.  CA is where my mentality came out, looked around, and decided to blossom.  I had a wonderful career as Office Manager, Executive Assistant, Sales Training Manager and Technical Writer in corporate America.

I'm now self-employed - a Virtual Assistant and a self-published author.  My life is now about giving back what I've learned to other large women.  Yes, I'm obese and it's been the biggest catalyst that led me to spiritual healing and understanding.

How did you get to where you are now?

Just by taking the next step.  Each one of them is stately and each one is perfect.  Each one contains within itself the next step to take.  All  you need is the oomph to get up off that couch and take it.

I've always been a hard worker, a zany risk-taker, a pursuer of laughter, and a discoverer of what goes on behind green doors. Motherhood taught me a lot as did my metaphysics studies.

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

I'm so much less intense now than I was ten years ago.  The path never ends, so why run? I'm more confident, more articulate, more loving, more caring and more wise.  My desire to help other women to come in to self-love and self-awareness has become passionate.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Good grief!  I'll be 77 then. I still have a conversation in my head where my mother says "Just think, Patty, next year you will be 12."  How the hell did 67 happen to me?

What I do know is that I'll still have unfolding greater understanding and sharing it with others as my main motivator. My book will have caught on in the women's communities and I'll be a sought after motivational speaker. My cats will still respect me naked.

Dear Younger Self,

When they call you 'Patty Fatty' it doesn't mean you are fat.  IT means they think you are precious, cute and adorable. When they tell you you look like Aunt Ida, it doesn't mean your fat like her.  It means your face looks like her face.  If  you don't think you are fat, you won't create a fat body.

From Sentinela, the watcher in your soul

I admire William Walter who was able to bring himself back from the grave and abject poverty, shake off the shackles of Catholocism, and discover that life was a science totally controlled by one's mind. 

I admire Asaph (Psalm 82) and Jesus (John 10) who both tried to tell us Ye Are Gods and we breezed right over it.  Thanks for trying, guys.

I admire Gabrielle Roth who taught me I could "Sweat My Prayers."

I admire the lady in the mirrow who winks back and me and tells me I am okay.  Her, best of all.