She currently scrapes by on a few odd jobs, bike riding, hiking, skate skiing and pretending her knees will hold out. She likes theater and all the arts (her father was an artist) and Rick and Tom, who she imagines are one and the same. She grew up in the Arizona desert where she believed she was a horse. High school and college were completed in Europe and after a brief stint in Boston and New York, she graduated from the University of Arizona. After experiencing what it was like to have the economic status of an artist, without any talent, she completed her Ph.D. at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her only previous contribution to the arts has been as an appreciative audience member and small collector.