I've been a writer since I was in first grade, when I was able to put sentences together on paper. There was something about the unlimited horizon words presented that captured my imagination and opened up a new world to me. I gobbled vocabulary and spelling like the greedy creative embryo I was, and I have never stopped loving language.
I was that skinny, geeky little girl in the class who couldn't wait to get my hands on the list of titles or topics the teacher would hand out for English compositions. To me, it was like a box of chocolates... which to choose? I started getting gold stars and A's on those paragraphs, and I was hooked. My first by-lines!
After a student life of writing (I won my first writing awards as a teen) always as the editor-in-chief, I married another young achiever while we were still in college, and devoted the next ten years to raising our four sons while my husband played the PGA Tour. Because we lived in a world of media and the business that surrounds the Tour, I got an irreplaceable education in how the corporate world uses media and sports to make money. I had an argument with a sports columnist in Golf Digest over his opinion, and he challenged me to write a better view – so I did! I queried one of the Golf Digest editors and got my first assignment for a full feature. I had found a home writing freelance humor and essays, so I had clips, and word spread on the Tour that I was a writer. For fifteen years, I wrote on assignment for various local, regional and national magazines on golf, humor and lifestyle, as well as interviewing well-known people and executives.
Today I work for myself, no longer have the Tour marriage, rejoice in the four young men I've raised, live in one of the most beautiful places in the US, have a great family and an ever-expanding group of friends, and do what I love. Life is good.
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