About Jane

I have been a junior high school English teacher, a stay-at-home mom, and a part-time employee at a regional running magazine where I sold advertisements, wrote and edited articles and eventually became editor.

I started my teaching career in a small, country school where I was the English department for the Junior High, a heady position for a first year teacher even in a small school. I loved it. I finished my teaching career at a large school district where I was one of many in the English department.

The discovery of how uncoordinated  I really am happened in front of a room full of seventh graders back in the day of projectors and pull-down screens. While facing my students and explaining what they were about to watch, I reached up to pull down the screen that was mounted in front of the chalk board (remember those). Unfortunately, I was standing under the screen instead of slightly in front of it and managed to pull the screen down on top of my head. The kids were wide-eyed and uncharacteristically but politely silent until I told them to go ahead and laugh. The room erupted.

Following my 10-year teaching career and 12-year stint at the running magazine, I served for five years as liaison between my church and an elementary school through the Partners in Education Program. During that time, I was a reading mentor, a creative writing contest judge, and co-creator of a newspaper club.

I enjoy bible study, reading adult historical novels, young adult and picture books both fiction and non-fiction. The beach is my happy place. The water brings me peace and calm. I love playing Pickleball and think every spring my golf game will be better than the last year, but it never is.