Barbara M. Fleming earned a BA from William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, an MLS from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and worked toward an MBA at SUNY Binghamton. She has been a reference librarian, assistant library director, library director, art teacher, professional artist, author, and transcriber for retreat teachings of Lama Surya Das. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis thirty years ago, she has used her books Backwards Buddhist: My Introduction to Dzogchen and Appreciating Life As It Is: Living Well With Multiple Sclerosis to reframe her way of living well with both inter...