I started out with the Mother Earth News Club in the 80's, using raised bed, square foot gardening, building a greenshouse, living in a passive solar heated home. My religion is earth-centered. I make my living by selling my handmade and self-designed jewelry and writing. I am into cats, science fiction/fantasy reading and writing, Firefly/Serenity/Browncoats, Celtic Thunder and Celtic music, doing henna tattoos, beading and wire-working. I believe everyone was born with creativity and can be taught to think sideways (using one area of knowledge to benefit a totally different realm of problems). I teach henna tattooing, Celtic knotwork, glass etching, jewelry-making, and Norse runes. I've lived in the Midwest, Hawaii, California, and the Pacific Northwest, where I live now and which I think is the most wonderful place to live and work in. I sell my jewelry online, at street fairs and bazaars.