Finding homeopathy, herbs and wellness I dabbled in homeopathy while in high school and then again in college when my childhood cat was preparing to die, and the vet couldn’t help her. 

I found then, my first homeopathic vet in Princeton NJ, and convinced my mom to take my cat to him. Taffy, my cat, was supposed to die in my high school years but lived until my second year of college. She regained tremendous quality of life. That peaked my interests. I was then in college pre-vet. 

I did a 180• on my career choice. The US did not have a homeopathic vet program yet, or I would have done that. But I had a horse, a goat, a cat, 10 ferrets and 13 fish aquariums. I couldn’t see getting rid of all of them to go overseas. I had that horse from an 18 mo old, and until he was 27 and euthanized on the farm that I owned in NC. He enriched my life, and once saved me from a horse attack, as well as saved my goat from semi-wild dogs. 

He was worth the choice I made then. 

So, changed out of pre-vet to wildlife biology with a minor in animal behavior. 

Many experiences throughout and since brought me to today’s vocation. I made my own, fairly non-existent career, that now is widely known as a wellness-program. 

I worked at an herb shop for 1-year of time in my 30’s, after submersing myself in this healing modality. But herbs are SO numerous, and I’d only known those that I needed to seek for my critters immediate ailments. I wanted a broader working knowledge. 

I made this year commitment, to keeping this job outside of running Fantasy Acres Equestrian Center- a farm that I owned, built and operated daily, to gain working knowledge of herbs, as they pertained to the town of Louisburg’s ailing – all of which ended up at Timberlake Herb Shop. Many cancers, and life-threatening illnesses, as well as all general ailments, were being cured or curtailed, w the use of herbs only. 

Very educational indeed, and I have knowledge of many herbs qualities at my fingertips. 

Now, California has 3 homeopathic programs, including homeopathic veterinary medicine. A step forward for US, in my opinion. 

But I found beneficial education after college, “on the road” so to say. And I’m thankful to all that contributed, particularly a western medicine vet in Raleigh NC, dr gayle bowman. Never met (before or since) a more brilliant and compassionate practitioner. 

Major shout-out too, to 4 of my professors at the University of Maryland, that took me under their wings and gave me my first job in the field of scientific research, PCB’s were banned from jet fuel, as a direct result of my first study. And I was published in the Ag journal (the 11th name in the published work/ and only 11 could be named in our 20-manned study) 

My first decade after college was AMAZING, and I feel I’ve left behind a legacy that will live longer than I (i always wanted to change the world as a kid!)

I started an oiled-wildlife rescue program up and down the coast of Chesapeake Bay, through Chesapeake wildlife sanctuary, as my senior thesis. Wrote a grant proposal asking the federal Govt for 1.5 million annually, and received 3.5 million for year 1, and 1.5million annually for the life of the program. 

That, I feel, is my version of the red-cross for sea-life. And its my living legacy. I’m truly proudest of that, in my accomplishments