about me.

A few basics about me: I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and now live in Minneapolis, MN. I love the midwest and have mostly always lived here minus seven years in Bristol, England and small periods in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I also spent a lot of time hitchhiking and traveling in my 20s, meaning I stayed for three or four months in a lot of different places. That, though, was a long time ago.

In January 2025, I completed a walk from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast of Turtle Island. I had been dreaming of this walk since I was 16 and started the walk in my 60th year. If you are curious about what this means, you can read more here or download the book where I’ve written a lot of words about it. Similarly, I posted a number of pieces on the blog on this site as well as through Instagram and Facebook. I am currently writing a book about the walk and what I learned and am in conversation with a publisher for a potential August 2027 publication date. plan to be walking again in 2027.

I work as a body-based practitioner (a craniosacral therapist (and don’t trust the Wikipedia page about this modality) and writer. I also am part of two different organizations that I helped form: Healing Histories Project and Relationships Evolving Possibilities. I just reopened a virtual form of my practice and you can find out more about this in my “work with me” page.

My books are: Queerly Classed, which was first published in 1996 and is now open source on my website, Restricted Access: On Lesbians in Disability which I published in 1997 with Victoria Brownworth and is open source at the link Liberated to the Bone, which was published in 2022, and At the Fork on the Road, self-released in 2024. I regularly write pieces on this website under “blogs” and also share writing through Patreon. If you are interested, you can join my Patreon starting at $5 a month. This is where I share notes, pieces from the upcoming book and chunks of essays that are in process - and a lot of gratitude.

I am clear that anything I do is done because of what I have learned and experienced from others. My teachers and mentors are too numerous to mention but you will see them referred to in all of my writing and speaking. Click here for a list of other sites that I love. Some of them are included there.