Love-Knowledge Baby

I grew up running barefoot in the lost wilds of inner city Chicago.

A tomboy, an artist, poet, and storyteller from an early age, I won awards for poetry while in high school, and always left papers to be written in the very last moments during college.

Raised on stories of tropical Burma where my parents were born, our eclectic family celebrated Hanukka (however you want to spell it) AND Christmas every year along with boasting a 100% Chinese bloodline, which on my father’s side directly descends from Confucius.

I graduated college with a double major in English and Philosophy, but I would have loved to major in Biology, Art, languages, sociology . . . OK, I wanted to be a career student!  I love learning, and I have always been a self-motivated learner.

Now my interests still include creativity, writing, and philosophy–but my passions have given direction to those interests.  My current focus is BIRTH and subsequently pregnancy and childrearing.  The things I keep discovering which apply to birth, pregnancy, and childrearing also apply to the bigger picture of life itself.

My son’s presence in my life has graced me with countless opportunities to grow as a person, to learn, to laugh, to live each moment in joy, and to help others.  I hope to be a doula, a college professor, a childbirth educator, and a midwife.  (Perhaps even an author!)