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Chicago, IL – where I grew up
St. Paul, MN – where I went to college
Tarpon Springs, FL – where I lived for ten years
Chicago, IL – where I live now
My husband Ron
My daughter Chaylee
Exercising
Reading
Sewing
Card Making (Stamping)
Playing Scrabble
Baking
Traveling
Jigsaw puzzles
Housecleaner
Babysitter
Candy Striper
Camp Counselor
Fitness Instructor
Teacher – 3rd Grade & Middle School
Camp Invention Director
Instructor of Small Engines
Curriculum Writer
English Teacher in China
Library Media Specialist
I can take apart and put together a small engine (the kind of engine that would be used in a lawn mower)
I love writing in pencil, but only the pencils made of real wood with the really good erasers
Any and all kinds of seafood
Loud commercials
Getting up in the morning when it's still dark outside
Pencil erasers that leave black streaks on your paper
As a child – Throwing up on the bus on the way to school
As an adult – Lighting the advent candle at church with my family – When I did the reading, I was SO nervous that the paper I held shook so much it almost blew out the candle.
I'm a VERY slow reader.
I get some of my best writing ideas from watching TV.
I always wanted to be a cheerleader and pom pom girl, but never was.
I'm VERY scared of lizards, snakes, and bugs of all kinds, but most of all cockroaches.
The Brady Bunch is one of my all-time favorite shows.
Staying up late
Making Christmas cookies
Making people laugh
Swam with dolphins
Walked on the Great Wall in China
Rode a moped in Italy
Whale Watch
Visit the Grand Canyon
Patience
Persistence
Really good writer friends
Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O'Dell
Tiger Rising – Kate DiCamillo
What I Believe – Norma Fox Mazer
The Hundred Dresses - Eleanor Estes
Stories of Christmas – Cynthia Rylant
Poop Fountain! The Qwikpick Papers – Tom Angleberger
The Problem with Pulcifer – Florence Parry Heide
Awful Thursday – Ron Roy
Beverly Billingsly Borrows a Book – Alexander Stadler
The P.S. Brothers – Maribeth Boelts
ELIC Communique The Student Literature Portfolio The Timothy Reflector Christian Education Counselor Christian Home & School InnerVisions Successful Young Adults News Seek ParentLife Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul Purpose Standard Skirt Magazine Pinellas Public Library Cooperative Newsletter JD Drama (online publication) Pentecostal Evangel Short Short Stories for Reading Alou d
B.S. in Elementary Education from Northwestern College
M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction from University of Illinois
