Welcome to Bonnieland

My childhood was filled with dreams of other worlds. I liked to imagine that Saturn was my true my home.

I made up games with hordes of paper butterflies, flying them from the top of a broken down wooden slide with the help of a friend.

My favorite butterfly was like a coat of arms, depicting favorite things in favorite color combinations.

A galaxy, forerunning of a fictional galactic empire, stretches across the butterfly beneath the word "Alonaton."

As a teen, I worked on my grandfather's ranch. I milked cows

and saddlebroke a horse.

I graduated from Beverly Hills High School

and started college in Oregon.

After a disagreement with my advisor about combining math and literature in story-generating computer programs, I dropped out and moved to New York City, where I subsisted catching fish

and doing oil paintings on commission.

I returned to Beverly Hills for a while to run an art gallery

though I continued to work on stories and songs and story-generating programs.

Back in NYC, I worked at a number of jobs, the last of them as a COBOL programmer.

I quit working to be a mother, encouraging my children on their own creative journeys.

In the 80's, I got a PC (IBM XT) and went on wild programming sprees.

A descendant of the story-generating programs I'd been working on since college appeared in the Computer Recreations column of Scientific American.

After my kids started middle school, I worked as an artist decorating furniture in a children's store. With the kids in college, I took over the store and called it Bonniebug.

When my five year lease was up, I closed the store and celebrated with a writer's workshop in Taos, New Mexico.

After that I visited Japan

and Australia.

I continue to work on art, writing, and programming.