CURRENT MISSION Life is a joy, exactly as it is... Let's celebrate it ABOUT ME Lucky me! I have lived a life filled with a wide range of experiences, both personal and professional. It has been very rich in contrasts: from high-tech entrepreneur to poet, from spiritual book writer to teacher of various arts, from home and office organizer to hospice caregiver, and lots more in between. I was born in Angola, Africa, in 1955 and spent my first 6 years on a coffee and tobacco plantation in the middle of the African nowhere. After that I was raised in Germany by German parents and was a high school exchange student for a year in Iowa. I studied English literature and American history at the University of Freiburg in Germany, and received an MA in American Literature from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. In Germany, I lived in Berlin for 10 years before the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989. A year later I moved to the island of Maui in Hawaii, interestingly when Berlin was not an island anymore... I then spent 12 years raising my kids in the Bay Area, moved to Ashland, Oregon for 7 years and have spent the last 2 years living in both Germany and Mexico. PHILOSOPHY I live my life as a spiritual being in a human body exploring the full range of experiences possible between those two expressions. I love life as a human being. I love living in these changing times, these challenging times,and I celebrate people feeling empowered thru the various populist movements world wide. I am doing my best to see the glass, any glass, as half full rather than half empty. I feel blessed.