I’m approaching sixty, a Jewitch lesbian who lives in Oakland,  currently experiencing a delicious if precariously balanced phase of great happiness living in Upper Peralta Creek neighborhood in a  little hundred year old Victorian cottage with my teenage son,  our dog,  and tortoise. I love heights and ladders. I work as an Occupational Therapist in WCCUSD. I like to write and am a student of drumming of Africa, the African Diaspora and the Middle East.