I was born in Melbourne in 1944 with extreme good fortune in my choice of Frank and Iris Sanguinetti as parents and a lively education growing up behind our newsagency in the country town of Kyabram. The joys and disasters of being a boarder at Methodist Ladies College are recorded in my memoir, ‘School Days of a Methodist Lady’.
I’ve had a fulfilling a career in education, working in schools, TAFE, community and academia. Now retired, I’m into writing, music, reading, gardening, bird watching, and many other things.
My other good fortune has been to share my life with David Legge for the past 40 years and be part of each other’s wonderful extended families. We live in East Brunswick and go to our bush retreat near Marysville to relax amongst the trees and cultivate our native shrub garden. We do what we can to name and oppose the devastations of war, the exploitations of the capitalist system and the looming prospect of global warming and environmental catastrophe.