Curriculum Vitae

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,
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 writing remained my first love.

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,
and watched my children start
on their own creative journeys,

while I continued along my own.
Teaching myself to program in Basic,
I wrote some computer games.

I also collected songs
from the galactic empire of my novels,
and my brother recorded them.

After my kids started middle school,
I worked as an artist
decorating furniture in a children's store.
I later 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.