About Me

I’d sometimes watch Green Acres when I was a kid and imagine how fun it would be to live on a farm. I imagined myself as Edward Arnold, pitching hay and never considered for a moment that I’d be like Eva Gabor. As it turns out I’m a whole lot more Eva (minus the furs, feathers, jewels, makeup, and accent). I’m a city girl through and through.

Many, many circles around the sun, I married, had two wonderful children and now live on a 1.3-acre piece of property with a lovely creek and a past. We bought it in 2014, and it needed more work than most people can imagine (including myself). We were told we needed a new well, a new septic, and as you can see, the barn roof has a huge hole in it (among many, many other issues).

Fast forward again, the place is livable, beautiful in many ways, in fact. I’m still struggling to have a decent garden due to the unnaturally cold Spring weather and unrelenting winds (hence the name Windy Creek Studio). And I am definitely not the Earth Mother I wanted to be. But we are careful about the environment, using homemade weed and bug killers with ingredients like vinegar, dish soap, and water. Some years are better than others.

The house is small, but the old garage (which we now call the Barn) is in great shape now. My office/studio has an amazing view of cow pastures, hills, and Mt. Rainier. In my little studio, I write lyrics, practice classical guitar, piano, and occasionally the Bodhran. Moving here was a stroke of amazing luck; we love the small-town life.