I was born SHEILA JOHNSTON in Detroit, Michigan in 1934. I graduated from Fordson High School in Dearborn in 1953, and from Michigan State University in 1957 as a Fine Arts/Education major. My first teaching job was at La Jolla Jr. Sr. High School in California, where I taught Art & General Science for two years. I married in 1958 and had a child in 1960. In 1964 I was the first person to receive a Master's degree in JEWELRY DESIGN at San Diego State College. From there, I taught at Palos Verdes High School for many years and also had a wholesale jewelry business with my husband. My custom jewelry was shown in major shows all across the country and I was selected as one of ten women in the country for the AMERICAN WOMEN METAL SMITHS exhibition at the Wichita Art Museum in 1973.

In 1969 I was an Assistant Professor at West Los Angeles College when it opened. After a divorce in 1974, I began work on another Master's degree in Primitive Art at University of California at Santa Barbara. After spending three years studying and teaching in Santa Barbara, I moved to the charming little community of Baywood Park where I opened my first jewelry store, Casa de Oro. After five years learning the retail jewelry business, I grew restless and opened a larger store in Cambria where I sold my jewelry, pendulums, and books. In January of 2000, I retired and am now writing full time.

I started studying metaphysics and energy in 1978 and have worked with the pendulum since 1984. I began writing my first book in 1986. Although I have taken classes and read many books, the pendulum has been my "teacher". I felt compelled to share all that I had learned so that it might benefit others as it has me.