Rochelle P BartholomewRochelle Bartholomew's maternal grandmother was from the Cherokee tribe and grew up on the edge of the Ozark forest. When Rochelle was little, her grandmother told her elaborate stories such as how she was nursed as a baby by a wild bear. Rochelle's reat-grandfather on her father's side was a ship builder and whaler on the northwest frontier. He was last seen on a Nantucket sleighride across Bristol Bay in mad pursuit of a famous bowhead whale they called Halley's Comet. Rochelle grew up in Los Angeles among artists, hillbillies, celebrities, and lunatics. She graduated from UCLA with a degree in anthropology and has been long consumed by her own mad pursuit of understanding man's place in life's great mystery. A self-proclaimed L.O.T.R. nerd and political junkie she is also a lover of baseball, dedicated meditator, and a recovering intellectual. She is mentored in the ways of meditation by a yogi master who resides in the Himalayan foothills. Rochelle lives and writes in her native California among old trees in a community by the sea with her husband and two sons. Read More Read Less