If you’ve gotten this far, a warm welcome to you into my newly launched world. Along with teaching for the past 25 years, I’ve always had a love for writing. When I joined the Lake Michigan Writing Project in 2005, I found other teacher/writers with whom I could nerd out on all things teaching and writing. But writing was always compartmentalized for me. It was a safe thing I did with other teachers, for my students, and maybe a little on my own from time to time.
Then Covid struck in 2020 and the world was burning down. I was juggling being at home helping my three kids through their online schooling while teaching fully online for the first time. I half-jokingly proposed an idea to my husband that I should go back to school and earn another Masters degree. But this one wouldn’t be practical; it would be completely selfish, to fulfill a lifelong dream. My husband, always the cheerleader, responded with a “why not?” and shortly thereafter I enrolled in Queens University in North Carolina.
As of today, I now have my Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing, specifically in the area of fiction, and I have completed a manuscript which I am working toward publication. For the first time in my life, I am actually living out my dream as a writer and author. I am excited and terrified and am doing things I would never have imagined such as speaking in schools and classrooms, building my author platform, gathering people to be a part of my audience and my new world.
So if you are here and you have read this far, thank you. I truly hope you will find this place one of interest and enjoyment. Or, if nothing else, a place where you can watch my crazy unfold in this wild adventure I’m on.
