went to Our Lady of Angels College (now John Neumann University); realized that Billy Joel wrote "Only the Good Die Young" about her. She worked day and night at a local fast food joint to get a taste of reality. Went to Penn State to see what they knew; graduated with a BA in English/Writing. Took the gypsy tour of various careers from retail to industrial engineering. Of course, these experiences found their way into various poetry and short stories over the years! Left an uneventful career as an overworked office administrator for a nonprofit PR firm, and ended up in civil service…where she hopes to stay until she expires.

She went to work for a few extra bucks for an alarm company happily chasing down the phone numbers of deadbeat customers… it's a touch of detective work that she finds absolutely addictive.

Writing is easier to do when the frustration rises to the top-happy is a place that always dangles just out of reach.