The creator behind The Adventures of Joe and Hilde: Life, Love and the Spectrum is a storyteller, therapist, teacher, and Gratidoodler™ and someone who has spent a lifetime trying to make sense of the baffling, ordinary and weird chaos of being human. Through doodles, vignettes, cartoons and small reflections, she creates a variety of characters, like Hilde and Joe, to say the quiet parts of life out loud.

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When not drawing or making miniatures, she’s laughing with her family, playing dollhouse with her grandchild, or deep-thinking about the multiple-world theory and the possibility of aliens in the ocean. She's on a daily quest to navigate autoimmune issues while she and her learn how to embrace his late-in-life autism diagnosis after years of misunderstanding. 

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She lives on the East Coast with her spouse of almost forty years, a cat who adopted her, and a doodle filled cast of journal characters. She's a proud card-carrying Gen-Xer with more pens, sketchbooks, and Procreate files than she’ll ever admit.  Heading into her latter years, she continues doing what she loves most: seeking authenticity, creating, connecting, and making meaning for herself and other women.​