I adore solitude, space, beauty and silence and am eager to venture far to find them.  It is there that my faith in God renews.

–Vivian Vedder

Favorite place: Nevada desert

What I can’t resist: my husband’s trail coffee

Hobbies: photography, travel, writing, camping, desert exploration, navigation and survival

Favorite books:

• Where I Was From: Joan Didion’s epic dysmorphic context for modern California where I live;
• Essays of E.B. White:  E. B. White’s amusing accounts of life in Maine, where I grew up.

My Sympatico: 

“Monk;” he wanders and ponders.