Here is more information about me than you ever wanted know.

am a native Californian who happened to be born in Colorado. What does that mean?  It means, my earliest memory growing up on a farm in a small town north of Denver wanting to live in Southern California.  

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I accomplished that goal at the age of 22, after graduating from college, who hired me for their Management Trainee Program.  While moving to California was meant to be, becoming a theater manager was not.  I did become the advertising coordinator for AMC's West Division. 

However, after 8 years in the pushing popcorn, I felt it was time to pursue another lifetime goal:  Becoming a supermarket checker.  (I kid you not!)

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I was hired on by Ralphs to be a cashier at their newly created club-house supermarkets called, "The Giant", where I met my future ex-husband.  He was an LA City Firefighter who lived in Moreno Valley. Moreno Valley?  Where the hell was that, I thought. I soon found out and established my residency in the I.E.

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Ralphs was kind enough to transfer me to their new Ralphs off of Newport Road in Menifee.  That was in 1991. Eventually, I got transferred to the Ralphs in Sunnymead Ranch, which coincided with the birth of my second child, a son.  My daughter was born while I was working at the Menifee store.

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The closet I came to achieving my dream of being a newspaper columnist was when I was the  News Assistant for the Press Enterprise.  The only bad thing was, I didn't write columns, just filed newspapers stories before it was done automatically online. 

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My calling to become a teacher happened after I grew weary of scanning groceries.  My mother suggested I become a teacher, and so I did. It was the best decision. (Mothers know best.)  

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I have taught for MVUSD for 25 years. I have lived in Moreno Valley for 30 years. 

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That's my history. 

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