I am a 57 year old baby boomer who has been married for 37 years to the same wonderful man - Bill. We live in Broken Arrow, OK, and have two grown children - Wil and Shelly - who live in Tulsa.
As a young newlywed, I worked for Du Pont company in Newark, Delaware, for 6 years. Then I had two children. For a short time, I sold real estate; however, that became too difficult with small children. So, at 28, I became a stay-at-home mom and Bill became the sole breadwinner as a Delaware State Trooper/helicopter pilot.
When my son started having problems in preschool, I pulled him out of school and started homeschooling. Although I only planned to homeschool a year or two until he caught up, I ended up homeschooling both my children from K - 12th grade. My son, Wil, is a freelance graphic artist and Macintosh technician; my daughter, Shelly, is currently a bartender/college student.
After years of being a stay-at-home mom, I started writing for homeschoolers in 2004. You can read more about my homeschool life in my blog, Empty Nest Mom. I am also the author of the Oklahoma Homeschool website and several resources for homeschoolers including The Checklist, Oklahoma History Online, and Oklahoma Scrapbook.
When I have time, I volunteer for Seasons Hospice and my home church, St. James UMC. You can read about my experience co-leading a group of baby boomers from St. James on my blog, Top 50.
I also enjoy writing, reading, traveling, and being with my family and friends. I occasionally get paid to write for the Old Schoolhouse Magazine and I write a blog entitled, Writing Lessons, to encourage others who like to write.
Because I’m also interested in religion and politics, I started a somewhat-controversial blog called, Religitics: Thoughts on Religion and Politics.
In my spare time, I’m back in college working on my Bachelor of Science degree from OSU in Journalism/Public Relations. This blog is a journal of that experience.
My views are my own and do not represent the views of any organization to which I belong. I hope in the process of reading this blog, you will see that I really do care about my readers. My goal for this blog is to inform and entertain and perhaps persuade other “emptynesters” to consider going back to college!
