( Da real bio is in da books! )
Animal and nature lover, author, journalist, photographer, yogi, actor, traveler, environ-mentalist, and advocate for simple living.
Boomer, striving to get younger, happy and grateful. Financially self-made, inherited work ethic.
Non meat-eater, food-combiner. Believes in natural health and raw food.
Lives in Hawai'i.
Over 100 published newspaper articles as a freelance journalist, 9 published books so far. (Including ‘Landlady in Paradise’ — just released March 2026 !!)
Previously acted in film and television (and stage). No one website with all credits, but you can find most. Biggest films were "Caught on a Train," BBC TV movie (won major awards - photo on rt) and "Shock Treatment," sequel of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." You can watch both on YouTube. ======>>
Modeled in NY, Paris, and LA. More recently, 20 years in the healing arts doing massage in Santa Monica and mostly Hawai'i. Taught yoga 15 years in LA and Kaua'i.
Covered a lot of turf by not having kids.
Best is yet to come.
Lately been taking extensive American road-trips, and now cruises (Alaska and Down Under)! Spring 2025 did a 10-week ride, including Monument Valley, where you MUST go.
Meanwhile, cranking out books; swimming in the Pacific; farming lemons and mangos; loving my darling cats; counting blessings; appreciating Hawaiian intoxification and guardian spirits.
Fun facts:
- college drop-out
- does not have a doctor, never has
- recovered sugar addict
- never been to a hair salon, never colored hair, never had a manicure, nothing pierced
- uncanny aptitude for finding the slowest line in the grocery store
- into astrology
- has lived in zero-waste households most of adult life (including now, of course)
- speaks 5 languages (4 poorly)
- been to 48 countries and ALL the United States. Finally Alaska in 2025!
- doesn't take 'vacations' but lives one
- watches "Survivor"
- rescues birds
- been writing daily for 60 years
- never drank Kool-Ade
- believes both political parties have giant blind spots
WITH MY NIECE CAROLINE (BAD TEETH RUN IN THE FAMILY)
OMA CORRUPTED ME, BUT TAUGHT ME PHOTOGRAPHY.
DAD'S 90TH. HE LIVED TO 95 1/2.
FEDERICO. A character in 'EXPEDITION COSTA RICA.'