A Very British Lesson (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517141554)

Writing is making pictures with words. Writing satire for Spoof adds smiles to those pictures. When not writing, I'm making pictures with two treasured Nikon cameras that fix my view permanently. Work in the darkroom often becomes as compelling as cross-referencing with Thesaurus and Webster's. Real fun. Favorite dictionary: Clement Wood's Rhyming Dictionary. Born and raised in San Francisco, I have a Bachelor's degree in English from the San Francisco College for Women, and studied photography at Stanford University. Jobs held: baby sitter, nurse's aid, (at fourteen, I started writing a book set in a hospital and needed background information) telephone operator, department store sales, art department librarian, newspaper, school teacher, cook, baker, chauffeur, cleaning lady, dog walker, accountant, laundress, investment banker, gardener, window cleaner, furniture designer and I can make a terrific plum pudding. I've written five books. Changing Plains and True North are available at amazon.com, and I am presently re-editing Green Sex; about the brokerage business. The other two books are finished, but resting, for the present. My creative process gets energized riding hunter/jumper horses, falconry in Scotland or trekking to far away places with strange sounding names. Most ambitious trek of the future: Walking from Alaska to Russia, crossing the Bering Straits (less than two miles at low tide) and taking the North West Orient Express to Moscow. Shyaslival!