Teaching has been my career for the last nineteen years. I knew as a senior in high school that I wanted to teach, so I went to the University of Georgia for an undergraduate degree in English Education. My first year of teaching was at Norcross High School (1990-1991), and then I married my husband and moved to Chapel Hill, NC with him where he began graduate school at UNC and I taught at Orange High School in Hillsborough (1991-1996). During this time, I went back to graduate school while I taught and earned a Master’s degree from NC State (1995).
Once he completed his Ph.D., we moved to San Francisco where our daughter Anna was born and our son Jacob followed two-and-a-half years later. During the three years we lived in the city by the bay, I taught at San Domenico School, a private, all-girls Catholic Upper School in Marin County, just north of San Francisco (1996-1999). Missing our families, we returned to the Atlanta area, bought our first house in Lawrenceville (which we could have never afforded in SF!), my husband accepted a position at Agnes Scott College, and I taught at The Lovett School (1999-2000). The commute got to me, so I reapplied to GCPS and landed a job at Collins Hill High School (2000-2004). Still in search of the shortest commute, we moved to Lilburn, I transferred to Parkview, despite the fact that I am a Brookwood High School graduate (‘86), and here I am, finally content. 
What do I do when I’m not figuring out where to teach? I keep up with the kids’ gazillion activities, love to read, love to figure out new ways to fix up our house, I run when it’s not too hot (I have run in a few races: the inaugural Georgia Half-Marathon and the Run the Reagan (5K last year and 10K this year), and in 2005 I did my first and only sprint triathlon. My latest obsession is planning trips for the family: in 2007 we visited France and England for a month, we went to Disneyworld last Christmas, Washington DC and Williamsburg last summer, and in 2008 we bought a pop-up camper so we could go wherever and whenever. In the camper we’ve already been to Warm Springs, the Okefenokee Swamp and other various state parks around Georgia; Sarasota, FL; Asheville, NC; and this summer we went on a camping trip to the Northeast: Charlottesville, VA; the Catskills in NY; Quebec City, Canada; Acadia National Park in Maine; Vermont. Next up: London for Christmas!!
Feel free to ask me about my travels, and I’d love to hear yours!
Enjoying a museum in Paris
