Welcome to my world!
On this website, you’ll find most everything you’d want to know about me: What I’ve learned, what I teach, and what I think about this world. It’s all tucked under the menu items above, and you’ll find my basic life story below. My world is packed with story, rhyme, and song, and with lots and lots of learning and discussion. I hope you enjoy your visit!
I was born and raised on the Illinois side of the Iowa/Illinois Quad Cities—the fourth of what would be five children. My parents were transplants from Tennessee. My father worked for over three decades for the major farm equipment manufacturers in our area. My mother ‘stayed at home’. My family’s life was full of church-going, singing, reading, and vacations back to the family farms in Tennessee.