I taught high school and then went to Connecticut to teach in the country's founding Montessori school. I returned to Cologne, the city of my birth, on an art school scholarship and studied print-making. I married in the States and with my family went to Zurich to study at the Jung Institute. The all time favorite thing I ever did in my whole life was raise my three children. When I couldn't produce children anymore, I began to produce books.
Writing is much harder than birthing and raising children.
I wrote, because this or that editor asked for a book from me, not because I felt compelled to write. Writing became more compelling only with practice. In my writing, I was able to integrate my own formative experiences, my admiration of Montessori and Jungian principles, and my belief in Vatican II as the fruit of the Liturgical Movement. While I had been lecturing and illustrating books and designing stained glass work for years, I was already 50 when my first writing appeared as a book. With that, I launched the second half of life.