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I started in the 1970s by changing the pronouns of love songs at bar and coffeehouse performances. I sang to entertain and to tell people that it didn't matter whom you loved but that you loved. Betsy Lippitt and I performed intimate concerts across the country booked by Teresa; quickly, we became a part of a grassroots effort to build and work within a network of women’s production and distribution companies. To this day, those women are our dearest friends and family.

For several years from 1978 through the mid-1980s, I was the unofficial Voice of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. I was involved in every festival as a performer, sound engineer, or announcer since the second gathering in 1978. Audio recordings include Prophecy’s Child (1970), From Women’s Faces (1978), and For Therese (1990). I composed the song and score for the documentary film Heroes and Strangers (1984).

In 1987, as a result of the progression of my disease, I became a composer. Through the enormous assistance of various local and state organizations and a terrific birthday gift from Teresa, my MacIntosh computer has seen many incarnations. With this equipment, I have completed several commissioned chamber music and choral works. I am most proud of “This Longest Night” and “Goddess and Guru”; both works have been performed by MUSE--Cincinnati's Women's Choir.

I remain a fun-loving eccentric who lives with her partner of over 20 years. My concerns and interests are not all that different from the ones I had in my twenties. I love music and I compose because it's the best way I know to express myself. Outside of that, I spend time with my friends and watch as much Major League baseball as humanly possible.