My three children, Rhiannon, Rikki, and Ty, are adults now, living on their own. Each is following his or her own path – starting a family, tracking animals in the wilds of Canada, working as a commercial electrician’s apprentice.

I was fortunate in being with the children throughout their first eighteen years, unschooling them most of that time. (Unschooling is a form of homeschooling, advanced by John Holt, that gives children freedom in creating their own education.) Through them, I learned to see life once more as a child. I now bring that expanded awareness to my writings. I see how children are treated by the well-meaning adults in their lives, and I work to open their eyes, too, so that respect flows to all members of our society, the young, the old, and all in between.