Lindy graduated from Tufts University in archeology and anthropology in 1978 and worked as a photographer on archeological expeditions for a few years in Sardinia, Montana, Peru, Belize, and Boston, before choosing marriage and a more settled lifestyle. While living in Wareham, Massachusetts, she and her husband, Stephen Cole, received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study cranberry growing on Cape Cod and southeastern Massachusetts and co-authored The Cranberry: Hard Work and Holiday Sauce (Tilbury House, publisher). After taking courses in graphic design at Massachusetts College of Art, she started work at a design studio in downtown Boston in 1986.
In 1987 Steve and Lindy moved to Belfast, Maine, where she worked as art director for several magazines, including National Fisherman, Maine Boats & Harbors, and WoodenBoat magazines. After the birth of their second daughter, she became a free-lance graphic designer, specializing in book design. In 1999 Lindy and her family moved to Damariscotta, Maine, where they have lived ever since. Lindy continued working for various book publishers, including WoodenBoat Books, Down East Books, Church Publishing, and Rowman & Littlefield, and also worked part-time for a local pay-to-publish company.
Lindy is the author of Doodle-ography Journal doodle-ography.com, and has used the journal in workshops with diverse populations, including elders, women veterans, and incarcerated women. A Young Unitarian Universalist’s Doodle-ography Journal is currently in use in Unitarian Universalist children’s religious education programs across the country. (Both are also available at InSpirit, the UUA online bookstore.)
In 2015 Lindy attended a two-year, in-person chaplaincy program and was ordained an interfaith chaplain by ChIME, the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine. As a community chaplain, she has worked mostly with non-profits, such as The Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast, Maine Unitarian Universalist State Advocacy Network, and Maine-Wabanaki REACH. She is a founding member of People United Against Racism, a local, grassroots, interfaith effort to confront white privilege and systemic racism. Starting in 2018, Lindy was the editor of the Abbey of Hope’s blog, Reflectionary. Besides editing and selecting art for Reflectionary, she was a regular contributor, as were some of her clients. Since the dissolution of the Abbey of Hope in July 2022, Reflectionary moved to the Chime website. Lindy is no longer the editor, but continues to contribute posts and art. To read older posts by her or her clients, and to see her work as editor, you can go to Reflectionary archives.