I have lived a full and exciting life.  I live with my life partner, Liz, in SW Florida.  I grew up in Los Angeles, California and have seven wonderful siblings.  I moved to Venice Beach when I was 17 years old.  I met my first teachers there and joined a group that studied Mystic Christianity.  These experiences became a spiritual and political foundation for the rest of my life.  I married a Chicano Activist when I was 19 and we became expatriates in Southern Mexico when he burned his draft card. I returned to the states in 1972 and owned a health food store in New Mexico, where I had my son at home. I helped found an intentional community there and then left in 1975 to study midwifery back in California. Since then I have traveled many places and had many meaningful relationships including with my second husband Brian Willson, who lost his legs protesting against arms shipments to the Contras and to El Salvador in 1987. Brian and I separated when I finally faced my sexuality and embraced my preference for women.  I have continued to be an activist for peace,  fair trade and the environment.   In 2003 I was brutaly shot by the police while protesting against the FTAA in Miami.   To read more about my activism check out my blog pages.  I am also working on writing my memoirs, which is an overwhelming project at times. This website helps me to organize my thoughts and life as I attempt to write this book.