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Random life 

experiences

  • Flounced around Martin Van Buren’s mansion wearing a hoop skirt 

  • Faced down a fisher cat

  • Know the thumping of bear paws on grassy soil

  • Stomped a threatening snake

  • Accidentally shut down the Kingston Rhinecliff Bridge when my car was disabled and I was suspected of being a “jumper”

  • Danced at the Copacabana

  • Outwitted a fiend on a NYC subway

  • Dealt with two stalkers

  • Read Tarot cards for two television talk show hosts

  • Interviewed on a syndicated L.A. talk show

  • Goofed around with Dom DeLuise

  • Got lost on Bear Mountain

  • Met Mohamed Ali, photographed George C. Scott, commiserated with Martin Mull, danced with Arte Johnson

  • Took candid photos of Harry Chapin singing to children on a TV set and gave them to Tom Chapin  

  • Sweated through a day-long sweat lodge

  • Did a loop de loop on a trapeze

  • Ran out of gas wearing Alice in Wonderland “Dormouse” makeup

  • Flew in a glider

  • Been on TV, radio, stage, and screen

  • Did a west coast book tour

  • Host and read at poetry/spoken word events

  • Co-produced/co-hosted a Valentine’s Day program raided by the police

  • Performed in Howard Zinn’s play “Emma” and met him after a show

  • Wrote a monthly lifestyle column

  • Been on silent retreats

  • Hospitalized for Broken Heart Syndrome

  • Promoted a “Rotten Sneaker Contest”

  • Worked with Baseball Hall of Famers

  • Walked in the Green Mountains with a falconer and Harris Hawk

  • Ate tiny oysters on a beach in Venezuela

  • Handfed a brood of baby cockatiels

  • Interviewed Ismail Merchant as he served me tea in his home

  • Selected to receive a “makeover” for a feature in a national magazine...most agreed the”before” photo was better!

  • Got to interview a NASA rocket scientist.

  • Selected to participate in the "Hair in the Wind" global artistic initiative organized by German poet, artist, video producer, activist, and art curator Antje Stehn in support of women of Iran who are being tortured, abused, and killed, and in protest of such treatment of women everywhere.  

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