I spent the first three years of my life in Cicero, Illinois. At the end of 1966 my father was drafted to Vietnam and we moved to Aberdeen, Maryland, Army Proving Grounds. Two years later we moved back to Illinois and built a house in Addison. My life long dream, since the age of five, was to become a teacher. I did my undergraduate at St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana, earning a B.S. degree in literature, with a double minor in art history and Spanish. In 1994/95 I received my masters in education at Roosevelt University in Chicago. I have been at Oak Grove School since 1995 teaching literature, language arts, and social studies. I am very fortunate to be a part of Oak Grove.