I grew up attending a Southern Baptist church in a very small town in Arkansas right in the heart of the Bible Belt. We showed up nearly every Sunday morning and Wednesday night. I went to Sunday School and church camps and Bible studies at friends’ houses, and my mom ran Vacation Bible School. I was involved all the way through high school. Not being involved was sort of a foreign concept. When I went to college, though, I just stopped attending. I wasn’t being rebellious. I never lost my faith in God. I just didn’t feel I was getting anything out of attending services.

Eventually, I married a Catholic guy, a practicing one. For anyone coming from anything resembling a Southern Baptist background, that’s a bit of a shock. Until I went to college, I had never even met anyone who was Catholic. Until then, it seemed to me that Catholicism was a whole separate religion, not just another denomination. Graham and I have been together for 5 years now, 3 years of that married, and we just recently found a church that fit us both well. For the last year and a half I worked most weekends so that made the search even more difficult since I only got off about one Sunday a month. We just recently became members of a Presbyterian church. It’s got a rock and roll feel, but they are trying to incorporate more traditional aspects.

In the past I have worked in human resources, accounting, and photography, none of which had anything much to do with my Management Information Systems degree. I even did a short stint selling mouse ears at Walt Disney World in Orlando. I am currently doing temp work in a marketing/admin capacity while I figure out my next move.

Graham and I live in North Carolina, just north of Charlotte where we share our home with 4 turtles and a couple of fish. We don’t have any children yet, but I think we're almost ready, as ready as you can be I suppose.