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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!
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