Perhaps the most important aspect of myself that I would like to share with you is: I  just LOVE being ME!

I am a New Zealander, married, with two fabulous children.

I spent my childhood in Auckland and Christchurch, climbing trees, falling off my bicycle, picking wild blackberries with my friends--and bullying one of our mothers into making blackberry jam. An avid reader of 'Trixie Belden' books, the first stories I wrote as a child were mystery stories.

I believe that my passion to write is my life-guidance. A Writer is who and what I am, and I cannot imagine doing anything else.

Visionary Fiction. Truth and fiction combined, with no way to tell where one trails off and the other begins. A way to encourage the reader to think, to ponder, to wonder about their own existence.

In the final days of 2000 my family and I moved to Singapore to live. It was a move that both excited and scared me, but sometimes you just have to trust where life's river is taking you.

This was the first time I had lived outside New Zealand, the first time I had lived in a condo, the first time (since the age of 19 years) that I had not had my own car. Compared to suburban life in a small New Zealand city, condo life in Singapore was an interesting experience.

In New Zealand we lived in a house and my attention was focused at ground level. In Singapore we lived in a condo, on the ninth floor, and my attention was focused on the sky. Each morning I sat on the balcony, relishing the peace, the solitude and the balmy Singapore breeze as I watched the sunrise.

In December 2004 we moved back to New Zealand. It was, I soon discovered, not a move back to anything I knew, but a move on to a new life.

Knowing that there is something greater and more significant than this world we see around us, I have spent over twenty years searching for the deep wisdom that is our intrinsic nature. As confusing as that search has been, it has also been joyous and fulfilling. It has led me to give my ALL to everything I do, and to give my ALL to my friendships and relationships. It has led me to remember that I AM Light and Love.

I am a vegetarian and a tea-totaler. And after a twelve year break I returned, at the age of 46, to martial arts training. Although I have a black belt in RyuKyu Kempo, I chose to study Wing Chun Kung Fu and Doce Pares Eskrima. I love it!

And I am enormously proud of the wonderful, amazing, talented, passionate people my son, Andrew, and my daughter, Lisa, have grown into. They make the world a better place!