I had the fabulous good fortune to be born and raised in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, but also the luck to lived in most of the major cities up and down the west coast in years past. I have been happily back home in Oregon for some years now. Happy mom of four sons, adoring grandmother of six, I live in Milwaukie, Oregon, with my husband, my old cat, and my books, with the detritus of my many other hobbies and projects scattered comfortingly in and around the house.