My desire to write took root as a child growing up in Bermuda. I loved books and received them as prizes for achieving academic honors in school. I loved to play "librarian" and arrange the books in my bookcase, each with a hand-made library checkout card in a pocket inside the back cover. English and literature became my favorite subjects and after my teacher had one of my essays published in the local newspaper, an aspiration to be a writer took root.
My intentions of going to college took a back seat when I met my first husband at the beginning of my senior y more...