Mama told me there’d be days like this
I can hear Van Morrison playing in my head...I was just coming home from Cassadaga from a client's house and did an extensive two-deck reading for her. I used the antique deck, which was gifted to me, by a mutual friend of a recently deceased friend, and the Light...
A sacred place of wounded healing
I paint faces at Mardi Gras in New Orleans with my best friend Emma and every year I go and I get a reading in New Orleans, world-famous for tarot, psychics, and especially voodoo. I booked a reading at Bottom of the Cup Tea Room, where they have all these little...
Boulevard of continuous dreams
People ask me all the time how I got on the reality TV show “Skin Wars.” it’s kind of what I’m known for locally and I get recognized in public all the time for body painting. Well, the way that I got on the show is: I just did what I loved and I did it addictively. I...
Lucky dummy
When I was 24, I was living in Savannah Georgia, and I was a waitress at Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub. I busked caricatures on River Street every Thursday Friday and Saturday night. On the river, I would meet various characters who were traveling through and I would make...
My path to the Tarot
I am a body painter. I would body paint and face paint at music festivals and one of my vendor friends used to own an esoteric store. One night we sat in my face paint booth, knocking back frosty cold beverages and enjoying the music and we really bonded that night...