I am a wife, mother, teacher and a writer. I started writing a children’s book four years ago. Richard and I have been married for 20 years and time really has flown by. Our son will be 18 next month and daughter is 11. We got our new kitten, Charlie, after losing our 17 year old cat in June. I’ve been teaching Family & Consumer Science (Home Economics) for 21 years and truly love my current position working with teen moms and dads in several school districts.
In June I finished a nine month program at Kent State U and earned my Reading Specialist Certification! I absolutely love children’s books and writing. I thought this experience would give me a better insight into a child’s reading development. I gained so much more than I ever imagined! More about that later.
There has been so much tragedy in my family in the past year. The only person our family lost in the past was Grandpa Ray in the 1970′s. But in July of 2007 my dear Aunt Barbara died in a tragic motorcycle accident while on vacation out West. Uncle George survived the accident but he passed away last Friday, September 5, 2008. We are all convinced that he died of a broken heart.
My sister, Cathy, died in a car accident on December 1st, 2007. And then Gramsy died 19 days later! I really can’t talk about any of this right now.
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