My first job was in Sausalito measuring yarn to be woven into window coverings. Piano and Arthur Murray dance lessons. Danced, bowled, played in the sand at Stinson Beach, and had fun double dating. Often during my Sophomore and Junior years I cut school and rode a bus into San Francisco to listen to Beatniks rant and sermonize about deep things. Cotillion balls in gowns with crinolines.
Graduated in 1960. A dentist in Kentfield taught me to be his assistant. Moved out at 18, up near College of Marin where I'd attended art classes following high school but had mostly played Bridge in its cafeteria. Moved to San Anselmo with high school chum Heide Cronquist. We'd walk down to the corner bar, Jeans Bit OBohemia, and sometimes Heide would go back and get my guitar and I'd sing "Summertime". One night, a guy from the Airforce base came in and ended up introducing me to my future husband, a young man he knew from the base who sang well.
Our voices blended and in 1963 we began singing as Tom & Lee in Marin County, mostly at a little cantina in Sausalito. Meanwhile, a higher salary as a clerk pulled me to Standard Oil in San Francisco and I moved back to Mill Valley into an apartment above Lady Baltimore Bakery and across the street from Mill Valley Records (closed 2 summers ago).

Married my singing partner 6-5-65. We had 2 children; Samantha (born 8-1966 in SF/6th gen.) and Alexander (born 1-1969 @ Marin General). We lived a while in Bolinas, then Tiburon. Managed the Drinking Gourd (Union Street) in San Francisco down from University of California Medical Facility, singing Friday nights and running the weekly Hootenannies. Sang second billing for about a year at the Purple Onion, kitty-corner to the Hungry I. Once in Tiburon, we shared billing with Janice Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company. And we scared ourselves almost to death following Big Brother (Janice comes off stage after singing 'Down On Me,' and says to me as she exits, 'Go Girl!') at California Hall in San Francisco to sing while they changed the band setup behind the big black curtain.
Our career took off. We signed with Fantasy Records, who, as was typical at the time (unbeknownst to us, of course), shelved our music; that is, they stole Tom's songs. 1968 we almost went to Saigon to perform for a lot of money. Our manager placed us with voice teacher Betty Davis in Oakland to help us persevere our schedule. Luckily, I was pregnant with Alex, so no Saigon. Ms. Davis was a fabulous teacher. One afternoon, she introduced us to a couple of her other students Grace Slick and! Carol Doda!
We broke up while touring in Chicago, Detroit, and Milwaukee. The social turmoil of 1970 was too much, Kent State, Women's Movement, Black Panthers, Weatherpeople, Bobby Seale and the Chicago Five, our children back in California, Vietnam War.