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English Teacher's
Autobiography

Paris, June 1997

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     I was born in Noblesville, Indiana, a loooong time ago, and I always knew I wanted to be an English teacher!  My family moved to Decatur, Illinois, when I was a junior in high school.  After graduating from Lakeview High School, I moved to Carbondale, Illinois, where I attended Southern Illinois University and received a B.S. in Education with honors in English.  I taught at Marion High School in Marion, Illinois, for eight years.  I then went back to SIU to get an M.A. in English and taught classes there and at John A. Logan Community College.  The topic of my master's paper was fiction written about America's involvement in Viet Nam.

My daughter and I moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1986.  There I taught for six years at Benjamin Banneker High School and for four years at Roswell High School.  I also taught developmental studies part-time at Kennesaw State University.  If you have a sound card, you can listen to comments about me and my class from former students and parents.

I met my husband (THE most wonderful man in the world!) right here at Geocities!  He wrote an e-mail in February of 1997 thanking me for an explanation of semicolons and asking me to check his home page. We developed an e-zine with another friend, finally met in May, and married on October 30 AND 31, 1997 (a bizarre story), in a computer store in North Carolina.  I'm now living in what once was a cabin by a lake in Tennessee and in the middle of what has been a seven-year (and continuing) building project. Yes, I thought I had married Thoreau and ended up with Christopher Wren!! I'm also teaching at a local high school and part-time at a local community college.  We're writing and marketing educational software of the kind I wish I'd had since I began teaching. I've also been reading avidly, so please visit my bookstore and see what I recommend.

Bad spelling, misuse of apostrophes, and a general sloppiness in the use of our language prompted these pages.   If you have comments or questions or ideas for software you'd like to see in the classroom, e-mail me!                                                         
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