About
Welcome to my virtual home. This site is about life at the intersection of parenting, traveling and creating (art, things, business, life) somewhere outside the boundaries of convention. My 10-year-old son and I are taking six months to a year off from traditional school, hearth and home and living and studying languages in Germany, Italy, France and Spain. I am a single, working mother (who will continue working as we travel) and who believes it might just be possible to craft a life on my own terms that is good for both my son and I. My work is mobile and so I am simply opting for us to live nomadically while taking work and learning with us. While we have sketched out this rough plan, the beauty of travel and only being beholden to us is that we can change plans and change our minds as necessary. We will see where our experiences take us.
This blog will be updated...as often as I can.
Background
I’m Holly and I’m a sole parenting mother of a wonderful headstrong and athletic son. I’m also a writer, actress, filmmaker, and personal historian. I grew up amidst the cornfields and small towns of the American Midwest, but my family moved abroad from country to country, because of my father's work, but always returned 'home' after each foreign stint. So far in my life, I have lived, in no particular order, in Roswell, New Mexico; Amherst, Massachusetts; Ohio; Brooklyn, NY; London, England; Cuernavaca, Mexico; Palma, Malljorca; Tunis, Tunisia; Dakar, Senegal; and Manila, Philippines.
I have also worked as a sub-editor, a copywriter, a Texting TV hostess (really!), an arts administrator, a TV production manager, and producer. I have written for The Independent, Eldr and Vision magazines, Cleansheets, and the Dayton City Paper. In 1999, I made a short film which you can watch here, if you dare. I received a BA in Theater & Film Studies from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and completed UCLA’s Professional Program in Screenwriting.
This blog will be updated...as often as I can.
Background
I’m Holly and I’m a sole parenting mother of a wonderful headstrong and athletic son. I’m also a writer, actress, filmmaker, and personal historian. I grew up amidst the cornfields and small towns of the American Midwest, but my family moved abroad from country to country, because of my father's work, but always returned 'home' after each foreign stint. So far in my life, I have lived, in no particular order, in Roswell, New Mexico; Amherst, Massachusetts; Ohio; Brooklyn, NY; London, England; Cuernavaca, Mexico; Palma, Malljorca; Tunis, Tunisia; Dakar, Senegal; and Manila, Philippines.
I have also worked as a sub-editor, a copywriter, a Texting TV hostess (really!), an arts administrator, a TV production manager, and producer. I have written for The Independent, Eldr and Vision magazines, Cleansheets, and the Dayton City Paper. In 1999, I made a short film which you can watch here, if you dare. I received a BA in Theater & Film Studies from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and completed UCLA’s Professional Program in Screenwriting.
