I passed the half century mark in Y2K as a published writer, a middle-school public school teacher, and a mother of two.

I was born in Kansas in 1950 and grew up in Louisiana where many happy days were spent climbing trees, riding bikes, building leaf forts, and roller skating. When I was nine, our family moved to Luzon in the Philippine Islands. What a unique experience! I learned how to speak a little Tagalog and rode to school in jeepneys and calisas. I also lived in Texas during the Cuban Missile Crisis and California where my father was an Air Force recruiter. One of my all-time favorite cities is Seattle, Washington where I graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School at the height of the Vietnam War. What terrific yet turbulent times for our country! There were peace marches on Washington, riots in Watts, and the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. We were young, free, and idealistic. My first year of college was spent in tie dye and bell bottoms at an art college in an old French Heuganot village in upstate New York. Then we relocated to Florida where I spent most of the time on the beach and met and married my first husband. I completed my education at the University of Florida, where as a teacher, I settled for twenty years and showed Irish Setters in obedience and conformation in my spare time. My sons were born there, and I completed my MEd there. As an Army wife, I moved with my second husband to Texas in the late '80's where I have lived ever since. Divorced since 1995, I enjoy reading, writing, flowers, movies, nature, and cats. The rest is history.

Teaching is my calling. I was a teacher of the gifted for fourteen years at a middle school in El Segundo Barrio, the second largest barrio in America. Now I have returned to my roots by teaching a small class of special needs students who are classified as emotionally disturbed. It is my honor to be their teacher! I have also taught regular and special education K-12 in both the public and private sectors since 1972. My career highlight was teaching at the University of Florida (P.K. Yonge) Laboratory School in the '80's. In Who's Who Among American Teachers, I love it when former students come back to visit and update me about their lives.