Growing up in San Francisco, the daughter of Jewish left-leaning artist parents, I was surrounded by art and music and theatre and dance and great writing. Despite the fact that my bachelor degree from one of the new “alternative colleges,” was more hippie than traditional, I discovered a love of writing there. This thread has remained throughout my life. The twenty years I lived in Synanon combined with my offbeat childhood and a desire to leave a record of my life for my daughter, has been at the core of story-writing for me. During the pandemic with nothing to do but to write in earnest, by 2022, culminated in the writing two books: “Painting on Paintings” and “May Your Children Be Like You.” Both books are collections of memoir-style essays. Shakespeare wrote, “Some are born into greatness, some achieve it, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” I am none of the these. Instead, I will simply continue to use my “still small voice” to delight, move, and to leave my mark.