about:

once upon a time, when i was single & looking, i went to a party.  you know those silly games people play to get to know each other?  we were told that we had 2 minutes to tell the person next to us what we were all about.  i sat there dumbfounded at first, then excused myself saying that if I could tell my whole life story in 2 minutes there was something seriously wrong with me.

here i sit in front of this computer years later, and still dumbfounded.  so many things lead me here; my years of studying art, living a bohemian lifestyle in the city, corporate life, then finding myself full circle with my "boy-toy" husband moving back to my hometown buying my dad's old house...a house we could never afford in the Bay Area.

when i reemerged from cleaning the old "as-is" ranch house with more square footage than i had ever had in the best "city" apartment in the last 25 years. ..i struggled to find my identity with a creative online business. a silly, yet prophetic name came to mind..."Streetnoodles".

for more years than i care to remember, as a struggling artist trying to get gallery gigs...i would make sure to pay rent, utilities and art supplies. what i had left was enough for a flat tray of Top Ramien noodles from the Berkeley Co-op.

surviving the best & worst time of my life was my reward.