It's never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot
About me
This whole website is about me! What more could you possibly want???
I was born in Indianapolis to a pair of wholesome Jesus-is-love Kentucky Christians. We moved when I was five to Japan, where I attended eight different schools and learned to speak Japanese like a native. (A twelve-year-old native.) My senior year in high school, I developed a passionate interest in Bryn Mawr College. When some of my missionary teachers warned me that it would be a dangerous place, filled to the brim with witches, lesbians, and-- worst of all-- feminists, I promptly enrolled in a high glee.
Lo these many years later, I have put that excellent education to wonderful use in the following jobs: flower shop girl, cleaning lady, bookstore clerk, and unemployed beatnik. I've also held some jobs that were slightly more respectable: I've worked at nonprofits, international consulting and PR firms, and as a voice-over artist.
I am back in Tokyo, living it up in my favorite city sixteen floors up into the sky. I share a view of Saitama, deliciously bad TV, and a bewitching daughter with my favorite film director and vampire killer, Ryan Skelton.
I trained as a life coach with Dr. Martha Beck, author of Expecting Adam and monthly columnist at O, the Oprah Magazine, and was certified as a Martha Beck life coach in November of 2009. These days I coach people all around the world by phone, I am writing a memoir, and I still talk into microphones on a regular basis because it is so dang fun and because I like the sound of my own voice. Obviously.
I was born in Indianapolis to a pair of wholesome Jesus-is-love Kentucky Christians. We moved when I was five to Japan, where I attended eight different schools and learned to speak Japanese like a native. (A twelve-year-old native.) My senior year in high school, I developed a passionate interest in Bryn Mawr College. When some of my missionary teachers warned me that it would be a dangerous place, filled to the brim with witches, lesbians, and-- worst of all-- feminists, I promptly enrolled in a high glee.
Lo these many years later, I have put that excellent education to wonderful use in the following jobs: flower shop girl, cleaning lady, bookstore clerk, and unemployed beatnik. I've also held some jobs that were slightly more respectable: I've worked at nonprofits, international consulting and PR firms, and as a voice-over artist.
I am back in Tokyo, living it up in my favorite city sixteen floors up into the sky. I share a view of Saitama, deliciously bad TV, and a bewitching daughter with my favorite film director and vampire killer, Ryan Skelton.
I trained as a life coach with Dr. Martha Beck, author of Expecting Adam and monthly columnist at O, the Oprah Magazine, and was certified as a Martha Beck life coach in November of 2009. These days I coach people all around the world by phone, I am writing a memoir, and I still talk into microphones on a regular basis because it is so dang fun and because I like the sound of my own voice. Obviously.
