In my twenties, while living in London, I worked as a women’s magazine journalist, a ghostwriter, and a magazine editor. My first book was about finance for women, written at a time when many women did not have full control of their own money.

For my second book, I spent a year in Paris researching the history of fashion and fashion design. That book has been translated into multiple languages and was described by Vogue as “a fashion bible.”

I was married in 1985 and moved from the UK to New Orleans, USA. While raising a family I published two more books but paused research and writing to start a retail/wholesale business in textiles that took me all over the USA and around the world. Evacuated from New Orleans in 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina, I settled with my family in Dallas, Texas.

Over the years I’ve interviewed and written profiles on well-known architects, designers, and creatives, and helped businesses and individuals with brand development.

Now in my sixties I’ve been documenting conversations shared with women who are navigating the same decade. Throughout my life most of my colleagues, collaborators, and clients, have been women, women from diverse backgrounds and cultures and many different experiences. I am honored to write that many of these women have contributed their thoughts and feelings about being in their sixties to “Sixty and Speaking Up: Women in their Sixties Share their Truths, Triumphs and Transitions” and others will contribute to “Seventy and Speaking Up.” Thank you for reading.