: About Me

Shown here with my husband, I'm happy to announce we just had our third year anniversary. Also a thirty-something, I run several internet websites including The 80s Music Connection.It's my most popular website and includes new wave band info, links, a trivia quiz, internet radio station(also run by yours truely), and live concert pictures. When not listening to 80s music I sell crystal jewelry that I hand make for psychic faires and Xmas boutiques.
I am also involved with a Living History Guild that recreates the court of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1562. I am webmistress for the guild website at stgyles.net.
I also have my own character website for my Lady in Waiting character, Lady Mary Hamilton.
When not writing or doing any of my hobbies, I'm usually involved in my day job, teaching 3rd graders in the Silicon Valley, CA. Which for those of you that haven't guessed, I'm a elementary school teacher by day, writer by night. Still no children, but haven't been married more than a few years. They are planned in the future, but not the immediate future. Time shall tell.

My passion is ...

writing and teaching.

I know too much about ...

jewerly, crystals, reiki, Mary-Queen of the Scots, Ren. Faires

My parents always told me ...

you can do whatever you want to.

My childhood ambition ...

be a cartoonist or writer.

My favorite memory ...

being at a Mylene Farmer concert in Paris.

Why I write ...

driven to it.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Katherine Kurtz-Child Morgan, Charmed and Mylene Farmer.

My first job ...

was in a yogurt shop.

My best moment ...

getting married to my husband.

My inspiration ...

to get my first fantasy series excepted by an editor.

Education > Education (Other) Technology in today's classroom

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Technology in the classroom has to be connected to thinking for the new century. Teachers are often struggling with little or no technology in classrooms in many states. Budgets have been cut drastically, and teachers have been assigned double the amount of expectations in respects to testing and accountability that often comes first with the administration. What has to change? The standards? Testing? Train teachers? Get more updated computers into the classrooms? All this would come about with a different kind of thinking for the 21st century child. All of this has to change to meet the n...

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