I spend my days caring for my family, specifically my adult child diagnosed with autism. I enjoy cooking and learning new recipes, especially ones from other countries and cultures. I love to travel, especially to tropical locations where I can do my favorite activities of all, swimming and snorkeling in clear ocean waters, laying in the warm sun on a soft sandy beach while reading or writing in a journal or creating poems. I live in the Pacific Northwest and enjoy foraging, fishing lakes and rivers, making tinctures and vinegars, baking treats, mushroom identification and gathering, & more!