About

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I was born in London. In an attic. My granny Dulcie, a nurse, helped deliver me. The cord was wrapped around my neck. My 4 year old brother came to the threshold of the door, looked in and said ‘I have decided to kill my sister’. These two formative moments may have set the tone for what has been a life filled with a certain level of turmoil and might account for my reputation as combative. Trust me, the biggest battles have been internal, and it’s odd to get to a certain age and wonder whether it could all have been different. I have never really been at rest, and I’m not one of those people who say with a big grin that they would not have changed a thing. I would have changed almost everything.

My brother apparently came to the door a few days later and said he had decided not to kill me. He has held up his part of the bargain.

I was called a dilettante once, by a member of the Women’s Photo Collective I wanted to join. But as I look back, they were right. I’ve been a bartender, stage manager, playwright, photographer, truck driver, postcard publisher, cab driver, photo journalist, house painter, rock band manager, dog walker, and maybe a few other things. 15 years ago I founded a non profit to provide medical care to companion animals belonging to the the economically disadvantaged housed or unhoused.

Susie Bright, my long time collaborator, wrote about me ‘She’s a firebrand, a political participant and innovator. Her sense of the history of the world and how she wants to influence it, is her driving force.’

I hope Susie is right because I can’t imagine a better way to spend a day ….