The following text was kindly written and supplied to JemCon by Patricia herself and is a delightful insight into the wonderful and naturally funny person she is.

Once upon a time a girl was born to a couple of middle class Detroit suburbanites. They named her Patricia. She had an inquisitive mind and an adventurous spirit. Walking next door before the age of two, without anyone knowing resulted in a missed step, lip to the cement kiss, that brought cries for rescue. Climbing trees and falling out of them, swinging like Tarzan and crashing became an early childhood theme that shadows her every move. If there was some way to defy gravity, physically or emotionally Patricia would attempt it even if it meant disaster. Such was how the soil was prepared for her to follow the acting sprout planted in third grade when she played a cardboard yellow bell in the Christmas pageant.

In college Patricia acted on stage and in local commercials in rural Michigan. Detroit offered more opportunities for radio and on-camera commercials and after graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre, Summa Cum Laude, she ventured for warmer pavement in Los Angeles to pursue acting on a larger scale. Within six months she landed several commercials and the co-starring role of Stephen Furst’s, (Animal House) girlfriend "Lucille", the obnoxious spoiled princess in the Buena Vista release, "Midnight Madness" and to this day remains close friends with many members of the cast. Within a year of that performance Patricia was cast as an unwed mother for six weeks on "The Young and The Restless" opposite David Hasselhof, and appeared in "Angie", "Eight Is Enough", and later in two episodes of "Remington Steele". David Hasselhof turned up again when she played opposite him in the slasher film, "Ghost Dance", as the office assistant who shares a dalliance with David in a stage coach only to be stabbed to death by an Indian ghost in the museum...ah, acting at its finest!

Voice-over work included many industrial films, commercials, children’s book narrations, and cartoons such as "Snorks" and "Yogi Bear" where she was lucky to work with and or be directed by Sue Blu (the voice of Stormer and Lin-Z Pierce in Jem), Andrea Romano and Helen Hunt’s wonderful father, Gordon, over at Hanna-Barberra Animation Studios. The role of "Pizzazz" in "Jem and The Holograms" came naturally. "I was so hungry, thirsty and tired at the audition…when I opened my mouth all I had left was venom for poor Wally."

An artist at heart, Patricia enjoys watercolor painting, has written and published, articles, short biographies, several chapbooks of poetry, co-authored "Windeyes", a "Woman's Reader and Writing Source" (Plain View Press) and taught the creative process for writers through her "Beyond Imagination" workshops.

Patricia shares a humble home in Nashville, Tennessee with a bunch of chiggers and kale and her highly tolerant and talented singer-songwriter husband, Bruce Michael Miller and their son, Forest, (a serious babe slayer) who is a gifted violinist/bass playing songwriter/performer as well.