ABOUT MYSELF

  A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MYSELF Born in Chicago, I began as a designer, a cartoonist, active in theater, directing and producing, a performer of Mime and a student of ‘improv’ at Chicago's Second City Company. On an assignment in California and a dare, I began to paint and had my first one woman show. Six months later, I fell in love with paint and never returned to Chicago. In California, best known as Gaslamp’s Comic-Con painter, a digital illustrator, muralist and as the Monterey Jazz Festival’s stage set designer for 26 years. But in 2013, fate changed my course. I moved back to Chicago to care for my mother who had dementia. Away from my paint, I began to write and authored the book I needed to read but couldn’t find, 'Wonders in Dementialand', the other side of dementia no one is talking about. The AFM selected Dementialand for me to pitch at their book-to-movie session. From the book, to a podcast, to a movie in the mix, everything Dementialand was exciting.  Pitching at the AFM was