• Bachelor's in Business with a concentration in Management Information Systems
• Master's in Management

Major Influences:

• Jesus Christ
• My beautiful children: Zion, Cortlin, and Zoey
• My mother, of course
• Dave Ramsey
• John C. Maxwell
• Shelby Steele
• Stephanie Meyers
• Childhood Authors that kept me reading

Favorite Books / Authors:

For Enjoyment:

• The Shack / William Young
• Anne of Green Gables Series / Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Left Behind Series / Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
• Chronicles of Narnia Series / C. S. Lewis
• The Notebook / Nicholas Sparks
• The Twilight Series / Stephanie Meyers

Personal & Professional Enrichment

• The Holy Bible / The Holy Spirit
• Financial Peace / Dave Ramsey
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership / John C. Maxwell
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People / Stephen Covey
• Who Moved My Cheese / Spencer Johnson
• From Good to Great / Jim Collins
• The Purpose Driven Life / Rick Warren

I also love reading autobiographies of historical figures (biographies are too textbook like), mysteries, and horror.

I collect books that I read as a child and read them to my own children. I am building a library of my favorite childhood authors and books who/which are: Judy Bloom, Dr. Seuss, Eric Carle, Robert Munsch, Tomie DePaola, V.B. Williams, Claire Huchet Bishop and Kurt Wiese (The Five Chinese Brothers), Sweet Valley Series (Creator: Francine Pascal), and R.L. Stine.

In the near future, I would like to begin a PhD program in English.  One quirky thing about me is that I like setting weird goals for myself that really has nothing to do with my professional life or anything else. An idea suddenly pops into my head and I do it. Recently, I felt the need to set a goal of reading 60 books in 5 years. I am a constant reader and it comes naturally. But, there are certain works that I have wanted to read for years and haven't gotten around to do it. So, I generated a list of those books and scheduled the month and year I will be reading those books. This list includes various genres, famous literary arts, and prize winning arts. I am so excited, I must say!  Toodles!!