A degree in English and experience teaching provide a strong foundation for each ceremony I create. My work as Marketing Communications Director with GTE (now Verizon), as statewide Executive Director for a nonprofit serving people with disabilities and my own public relations firm were only a prelude to this wonderful career of celebrancy. My practice began informally when I was a realtor in Arizona and began doing house blessings for clients. That expanded to baby-namings and pet memorials. I am now a graduate of the prestigious Celebrant Foundation and Institute, an international organization providing rigorous training in rites of passage and ceremony and ritual across the life cycle.

I believe one’s spiritual path evolves. My definition of spirituality is those beliefs which give life a higher purpose. We are all both teacher and student. I teach meditation and mindfulness and am a licensed practitioner with the Napa Center for Spiritual Living. In addition, I am an ordained non-denominational minister. My family laughs that I didn’t complete my shamanic training because I couldn’t spend the night alone in the desert. And I laugh too.

All the way from Montana to Virginia, I have three wonderful sons and four wonderful grandsons. My sister and I live together with two outrageous kitties, one named Leo and one named Posey. We enjoy visiting the Sonoma coast and our area’s great restaurants and wineries. I try to find time for watching baseball, practicing qigong, writing my book of haiku and having a cup of steaming hot black tea with milk.

My goal is to enjoy every moment of this precious journey sharing laughter, love and happiness. I believe in treating all people with kindness and respect, giving back and saying thank you in some way every day.