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- Born to an Irish-American mother of great beauty and kindness and a boxer/scientist/artist father who emigrated from Iran.
- Bowed to the King and Queen of Thailand on the streets of Bangkok at age 5.
- Believes herself to be an honorary Puerto Rican (will sing you the Puerto Rican national anthem, anywhere, anytime).
- Loved to watch surfers and fighter planes ride it in nice and easy at Ramey Air Force Base, P.R.
- Studied dance with Stone & Camryn in burly Chicago and in the Iowa heartland.
- Left home at 15 (with her parents' tremulous, but generous, blessing).
- Performed with The Ballet of the Dolls in Minneapolis, MN.
- Was a dancing lion, among other characters, at Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis (whoever stole her Yamaha guitar out of the women’s dressing room – a birthday present from her parents, for God’s sake – she hopes you put it to good use).
- Directed summer theater in Michigan, worked at Ellen Stewart’s La Mama’s ETC on East 4th street way back in the day.
- Lived in roach-infested Hoboken apts with two guys and then three guys before the fires (um… gentrification) started.
- Had a glorious time and made many errors in judgment and of the heart.
- Sat on the old Hudson docks and cried the night Marvin Gaye died.
- Waitressed at…a lot of places.
- Drove a 1973 Pontiac LeMans – V8 engine - fast and never with a seatbelt (learned the hard way).
- Received her undergrad degree, eventually, from the University of Minnesota.
- Co-wrote an article on scapegoating and the Causes of War (duh).
- Applied to Harvard Law School on a personal dare; got in; said hi! to the young man who went on to become POTUS; spent a fair amount of time at the Brattle Theatre; didn’t shake Dean Clark’s hand.
- Joined the legion of naïve, earnest and seriously in debt law students putting on the corporate drag in New York City.
- Spent her new money on a new Yamaha picked up on 48th Street.
- Married; had her beautiful first child -- things couldn't have been better.
- Got the stuffing kicked out of her when her son was diagnosed with infantile spasms and, eventually, autism.
- Stumbled, stopped and gave it all up to care for her son.
- Had her beautiful second child; moved to Jersey.
- Kept the faith; had her beautiful third child.
- Started acting up about equal access and equal rights for people with disabilities.
- Joined a merry band of biotech attorneys.
- Picked up that guitar, shook herself awake and began, again, to write and play and sing.