My Updated Bio: 2025

It’s 2025 and the world is wild, right? Anyway, it’s really great to meet you. Thanks a ton for visiting my page. Who am I? I thought you’d never ask!

Born and raised in Western Massachusetts, I’m an Eastern North Carolina transplant (twice). I married a Marine and moved to Jacksonville in 1995, back to Massachusetts in 2016, then back to NC (Willard) in 2021. Both dots on the map have their gentle claws dug deep into my heart, so I claim both. Much has changed since 1995, and if you want to learn more about that, check out the stories that rest anxiously in my blog posts. They define me, yes, but I’ve been working on what’s happening now recently, and that’s what I want to focus on for this bio.

I just earned my MA in English with a concentration in Multicultural Transnational Literatures from East Carolina University (This is wicked exciting for me!). I teach English as a Second Language, developmental English, and I tutor at Coastal Carolina Community College in Jacksonville. Now that I’m done with my studies, I’m ready to write, and I have so much to update you all on, especially some really cool family updates.

One to shy away from the cliché, I can’t resist the magnetic pull that attaches me to one traditional norm; my family is my charging station, and now, I have a granddaughter who is the literal sunshine around here! My household is the loudest, most comfortable chaos decorated by German shepherd hair, Old Navy pajamas, and a group of weirdos who wholly support me in my school, my work, and my business, Maescribes.

I don’t know what my next step is with this web site. I’m feeling a little out-of-the-box lately, and it’s time to stop being vanilla and scared of living. I want to travel outside this country, see the West Coast, or (my thing-before-I-die) drive around the country in squiggles and zigzags in my Jeep and camp along the way, and I’m finally feeling ready. I mean, it is my turn, right? Rafiki said it best: “It is time.”

Thanks for being curious about me and mine. Send me a message!