From birth the four W’s have beamed from my countenance. School Days created aspirations. The 4-H club’s Blue Ribbons’ fed my zeal. In High School ambition and confidence grew from the Debate Team, while the Glee Club encouraged cheer and happiness and piano lessons to this country farm girl. I was senior Editor of the High School News Paper and won the writing contest. Graduation’s Key Note speaker stressed that the world stopped and waited for no one and we should reach for the stars. These words penetrated deep. My call was to be a foreign missionary and with seven sisters behind me, my call was not fulfilled; A hunger that still lingers until this day.

My marriage gave me a son and two daughters. I was a stay at home mom. I tried to compensate my call by encouraging my children. They were involved in church activities, scouts, band, piano, chorus, friends and other community activities. I was always the leader.

When they were in High School, an opportunity for me to return to school just fell in my lap. I accepted. I received an Associate Arts degree from Anderson University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Clemson University in Education. I taught English Literature for a short while during the early 1980‘s and my short lived teaching career turned into Real Estate. I graduated from the Real Estate Institute and became a Certified Residential Specialist with a Brokers license. Activity in my new profession included my church, my community and State Convention Board and a member of the State Honor Board for Real Estate.

A few years passed and time took me to Savannah Georgia to sell Real Estate from there to Memphis Tennessee and to West Virginia. I am so thankful for these experiences. It was other worlds just as lovely as mine. After which, my husband died of natural causes. All these years, my hobby was writing.