After practicing psychiatry for many years, reading and writing fiction became the perfect escape from spending much of her time inside the minds of very real people. Over the years, her travels have led her to Asia, South and Central America, Antarctica, Europe, and Africa, and allowed her imagination to wander into areas of adventure and mystery. Disastrous world events led her to darker thoughts about the world she loves to explore and to wonder about acts of desperation, as well as one’s ability to discover hidden courage, in the face of despair. She wrote Rubbing Stones, her debut novel, and is currently working on a second novel, a murder mystery on a psychiatric unit.