About Me

I've had the good fortune to have had several different careers, all fun and rewarding. I started as a university librarian, then worked in research in D.C. in delegation selection processes of the states, then was an attorney with a law firm in Hartford, CT, then was Executive Assistant to the Connecticut Bank Commissioner, then was Senior Vice President of a bank in Bridgeport, then became Director of the Legislative Commissioners' Office (legislative drafting office) at the Connecticut Legislature, and now have a music booking business that books several Connecticut musicians in venues in the Northeast, and another business that is an online bookstore.

I've also worked as a volunteer in areas as diverse as organizing the Cesar Chavez grape boycott movement in Binghamton, NY in the 1960s, to serving as Chairperson of the Bridgeport Board of Police Commissioners in Bridgeport, CT two decades later.

During the past few years, my volunteer work has been focused on animals. I've volunteered at the Connecticut Humane Society in several capacities: train dogs to help make them more adoptable; walk dogs; socialize cats; take photographs of animals, volunteers, etc. that the Humane Society uses on its website, in its annual calendars, and in newsletters; created and coordinate the process under which volunteers write descriptions of animals for the website, and assist at the animal vaccination clinic for low income people. Most recently, I've been in training as an adoption counselor and am also being trained in working on special behavioral issues of dogs.

I also volunteer with the wonderful Emergency Animal Rescue Service (EARS), which is an arm of United Animal Nations. For photos from my assignment with EARS at an emergency shelter in Maine, click here. I'm also completing the requirements to be an emergency animal rescue volunteer with the American Humane Association, am a member of Region 3 of the Connecticut State Animal Rescue Team (CTSART), and volunteer for PETA, as part of its writing committee.

I live in Cromwell, CT with my musician husband, Phil, and 20 year old stepdaughter, Kathrin. We have two rescue cats, big Woody, who's a dog in cat's clothing, quite neurotic (we named him after Woody Allen) and so gentle that he's now a therapy cat, and petite Minnie, who has kidney disease and is a complete love except that she hates other cats, including Woody.