I was one of those kids who knew the TV Guide forward and backwards. I could tell you what was on every single day during the prime time family hours. I knew the histories of actors and actresses and their families. (I had a TV Guide cover with Blythe Danner and her baby girl , Gwyneth Kate, hanging on my bedroom wall for years) My television viewing ran the complete gamut. I loved game shows, variety shows, drama and comedy. I cut my television teeth on things like 'I Love Lucy', 'Combat', 'The FBI', 'The Outer Limits', 'Bonanza'and 'The Monroes.' In high school and college I branched out to soap operas. Heh. My initial career plan was to be one of those really mystical and mysterious television WRITERS. I loved the idea of writing dialog for characters already created...expanding their stories. I did it for fun all the time.

I was writing scripts for 'The Partridge Family', 'Here Come the Brides' and 'Owen Marshall', Counselor at Law'(HUGE crush on Arthur Hill for a while. I was wierd that way) for my junior high and high school friends to read. They were my biggest fans and fanned thoseburgeoning writer flames. I actually called the head writer for the show 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' and talked to her for nearly an hour once. She was encouraging but also discouraging. She knew a lot of talented writers who were driving trucks for a living. My dad just about killed me over that phone bill! I plugged along and became the go to girl for text for the year book....and wrote high school columns for three different newspapers for a while. I wrote an original novel in my senior year and won a writing scholarship. But alas....I have a hearing imparment and was surrounded by people who loved me and felt I should aspire for something more 'dependable'.....something that would enable me to support myself. I allowed them to sway me. I became a Teacher.

Don't get me wrong. I love my career. For nearly thirty years I have been blessed with spending my days with elementary age children - Kindergarteners for the most part. Is there really anything better than going to work each day with personalities that shine like the sun....forgive every mishap and misadventure...and always look for the good in people and find fun in every single situation? Of course not. Even in my newest position, as a Technology Teacher, I get to do all the fun stuff. Play.....as we learn to harness the World Wide Web, the editing tools and the creative avenues a computer offers us. I love my job.

But I love my secret life as a writer even more. I am a television reviewer here, a fan fiction writer on fanfiction.net and regular poster on a variety of web boards all over the place even more. I have another blog site elswhere as well. Heh. If my husband only knew. I am still enamored with the television world. I still long to be one of those who hold the reins on what viewers see there. But I concede. I am too dang old to start all over....and too dang young to quit what I have been doing for thirty years. But if there is anyone out there waffling about what they want to do with their life....don't waffle. Take the reins and run with your dream. That way you will never have to wonder 'what if?' You will never have to concede.......

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank.