Like Popeye, I Yam what I Yam and this is a little of how I got that way.

Raised in Dublin in grim times for Irish girls seeded Feminist and Social Activist roots. Lack of prospects forged an Independent nature and I left at 16.

From the kindness of strangers, I learned how to be a friend. Geneva, Paris, and Amsterdam during the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War made me a Pacifist. In London, tried out corporate life but, ever an Idealist, found agreement with Gertrude Stein who said I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.

In 1970 I decamped for Canada where inspired by the cause of Native Canadians and Canadian culture, became a Filmmaker and Theatrical Producer.

Delighted to play a seminal role as a Creator of the film industry in BC. Became Mother to a son and moved to Los Angeles. Sunnier climes and family life allowed time for reading and study in creative writing and in the history of film making .The birth of a daughter was icing on the cake. Divorced, I took my family back to Canada.

Casting the TV series MacGyver and MacGyvering a home as a sole supporting parent was a profound learning curve. I sat on the board of the BC Motion Pictures Association and was founding Vice-President of Vancouver Women in Film.

Always a writer, I published a novel. I continue to be a traveler. Last year I trained as an ESL teacher in Los Angeles and produced an original play in Gibsons about Fidel Castro I am working on a memoir.