After attending the University of Central Arkansas in Conway for three years, I completed my final year at Missouri Southern State College with a B.S.E. English.

I taught 6 years at Carthage High School in Carthage, Missouri; 14 years at College Heights Christian School in Joplin, Missouri; and then moved to Mississippi in 2005 and began teaching at DeSoto Central High School.  I  spent the majority of these years teaching 9th and 11th grade English/Language Arts.  In addition, I spent a couple of years as an adjunct professor at Missouri Southern State College teaching ELL classes to foreign exchange students.