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I was barely 17 in September1955, when I arrived at Macalester from a middle class, middle-brow, Midwestern environment — everything safe and clean — to find bigger-if-messier ideas and a wider world enticing. The more I learned, the deeper and darker the world became so that by 1958 I pulled back into a traditional idea of my future. I married and had three children, in that order.

Rapid changes in society pushed us along through their father’s graduate school years, my first job as a copywriter for educational television, our move to the desert, and then divorce.

I finished my B.A. at the University of Arizona (Tucson), then found work in public relations, publishing, and program development, mainly for educational institutions. I’ve been involved in many projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities or National Endowment for the Arts. I earned my M.A. in education at St. Mary’s College (now university) in Winona, Minn. Community building has always interested me, and therefore I am pleased that my children Greg, Ann and Tom all earned degrees and found careers in professional planning. 

In 1980, I married Roger Dahood, a Medieval Literature professor at the University of Arizona, and we have spent considerable time in London.  At home in Tucson, we live 10 blocks from the University, frequently surrounded by our three children, six grandchildren and a great-grandchild.  

It’s a transitional time for me, as I have been working on a series of mystery novels off-and-on for 20 years, but I still edit a remodeling newsletter, occasionally write magazine articles, serve as the “write hand” of a local philanthropist and help an artist who taught special education for 25 years and is a Jungian psychologist with her publications on Mytho-ceramics. The world continues to look dark and deep, and I am grateful for the many people I meet who are shining their lights on its many facets.

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