Kara’s first love was dance and she studied it throughout her childhood and young adulthood, performing professionally in Seattle in her twenties and forming a dance company in New York City in her early thirties. She retired from the performing arts in 2007, to focus on family life and raising her three boys. 

In recent years, Kara became fascinated with how to survive a gauntlet and thrive even in hardship after suffering through a difficult season. She’s had the privilege of being a student again, into the myriad facets of health, mental health and recovery from all the slings and arrows.

Along the way, Kara has been a journeyman writer too --- her first published work appeared in the Poor Dancer’s Almanac Newsletter published by Dance Theater Workshop when she was finishing her undergraduate degree at NYU. Later, in Seattle, she dabbled in dance criticism. And in more recent years she’s had a few cherished opportunities to speak or write about her journey through grief and faith.  The story of how she unexpectedly found God appeared in Gospel in Life, the online magazine of Tim and Kathy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church.

She lives in Florida and New York.