When I was in 3rd grade, I was reading below grade level. So my mom sat me on our yellow kitchen stool to read A Big Ball of String by Marion Holland over and over again.
The next year, my 4th-grade teacher introduced me to books about a girl – the Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. And that was that. I took off reading.
Story was an escape, an adventure and a joy, and it still is. But what reading also did was make me into a writer. The flow of words in the stories became the flow of words in my work.
When my son was born, I left my corporate job and began freelance writing. For 18 years, I wrote about everything from telecommunications to lingerie to eggs. When my son graduated from high school, I took a job managing websites, writing and editing web content daily for the next nine plus years.
Besides writing professionally, I write poetry and am a member of the Mockingbird Poetry Society.
