My Five P’s
• Pursuits: spirituality, abundance, fulfillment, joy, and beauty
• Personality type (Myers-Briggs): INFJ (introvert, introspective, feeling, judgment)
• Pleasures: travel, gardening, reading, concerts, walks, museums, dinner with friends
• Preferences: summer, small towns, period films, comedy, instrumental music, herbal tea,
• Peeves: noise, dishonesty, cussing, cold weather, troublemakers, weeds
Writing
Memoir Writing, Ink — a 12-week on-line writing course by Alison Wearing, June, 2021
“Arne” — a memoir about a son’s disability; long-listed in the International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir Writing, 2022; published on the website of United Leukodystrophy Foundation; March 2023
Tuscany Writing Retreat —a seven-days retreat by memoirist, educator Alison Wearing, April 2023
West Coast Christian Writers Conference – a two-day workshop, Nov 2024, Roseville, CA
Micro Memoir Writing Workshop — a 4-week online course by writer Rayya Liebich, Oct 2024
In Mt. Diablo’s Shadow, Anthology, Vol. 7 – includes my two poems Elegy, and The Seasons, and How People Saw Me, a short story. Published by the City of Brentwood, CA. Nov 2025