"My mother was widowed at 28 and moved back to live with her mother in a small Illinois town, along with me, 3, and my brother Jim, 6. I was in braces from polio. I was an avid reader and later discovered I could write, too. I studied journalism at Northern Illinois University and after graduation and Jim's death, was hired by Rupert Murdoch to work on his newspaper in Sydney. I discovered I loved travel more than writing and after a few years in Australia moved to Paris where I worked as a host in a private language school. Homesick for Sydney, I returned and joined Qantas Airways which took me to San Francisco where I founded a City magazine when my writing yearnings reappeared. I now live outside of Palm Springs where I have written a biopic of my mother, Too Early for Flowers in which I tell of her struggles not just to help me walk, but to inspire me to travel the world with a sense hope and adventure."
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