Over the past several years, I’ve done several blog interviews. I thought I’d post some of the questions and my answers for you to enjoy (and maybe update an answer if needed).
What did you want to be when you grew up?
When I was really young, I thought I’d be a nurse like my mother. By my teenage years, I wanted to be an actress or dancer. No money for college, I initially considered going into the Army and even took the assessment tests. But life intervenes and I ended up married with children and working a variety of minimum wage jobs before stumbling into an office position that started my eventual career. The bookkeeper took me under his wing after discovering my aptitude for accounting. A few years later, I was introduced to programming computers (not the PCs around today, but the mainframes that fill rooms). My career in IT was born and I rose from a data entry operator to VP of Client Services.
My fiction writing didn’t start until much later in life, after spending several years writing articles for various publications and online websites.
Where are you from?
I grew up in small-town New England but my parents moved to Florida in April of my senior year. I stayed with my best friend and her parents until graduation and then took a commercial bus to Florida. Imagine that – seventeen years old, fairly sheltered life, spending days on a bus in 1965, the height of the integration issues.
How long have you been a writer?
My earliest writings were non-fiction at around age ten. I had gotten a toy typewriter for Christmas and started typing up a neighborhood newspaper. I’d type up half a dozen copies and sell them for ten cents each. During my professional career in IT, I wrote more non-fiction. In the late 1990s, I wrote non-fiction content for several websites and print publications, never dreaming I would one day write fiction.
How would you describe yourself in less than three sentences?
I’m a septuagenarian, great-grandmother, traveler, semi-adventurer, motorcyclist, shutterbug who enjoys creating characters and putting them in fun settings. (Phew, did it in ONE!)
Morning person or night owl?
Most of my life was spent with very little sleep. A morning shower was the only thing that woke me out of my stupor. Now that I’m retired, I’m loving the night owl life. I could easily stay up till the wee hours of the morning, then sleeping till noon. But I compromise and try to turn out the light between midnight and one, getting up by nine-ish.
Now the biggie, tea or coffee? And do you have a favorite mug?
Oh, definitely coffee! Mostly dark roasts served black. From time to time I do add cream and sugar and I use them both in my iced coffee. But I’m not a foo-foo coffee drinker, well, except for my love of a good iced cappuccino! From time to time, I do drink tea but usually when I’m not feeling well.
I have several favorite mugs, but this is the one I use every day. It holds a lot, is shaped just right for my hand, and the logo always makes me smile.
Thank you.
Great answers! Thanks for sharing more about yourself. I love coffee too and that mug is terrific. I do have tea at night before bed though.
I’m trying to spend more time writing so doing this from previous interviews helped. Glad you enjoyed it!
So good to learn more about you. I wanted to be a nurse when I was young too. That didn’t work out.
It’s always fun to see what others thought they might want to be.
It was so nice to learn a bit more about you- a pleasure.🌹