About Me

Bio: As a 4th generation Colorado native, I can't imagine living anywhere else other than colorful Colorado.  I love Colorado, Littleton, and Littleton Public Schools especially Euclid Middle School---my home away from home.  

Over the last 25 years, I have been teaching at the middle school level in Colorado with 22 of those years here at Euclid Middle School.  Family is very important to me, including my school family and I dedicate my life to making a positive difference in those lives that cross my path.  

My passions are reading, staying informed of the world around me, and gardening.  Gardening is my therapy and my delight--it keeps me grounded and brings me great joy.  I also use gardening to draw analogies between my students and my flowers...

Quotes:  

•     ..."The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."  --Walt Disney, Mulan

• "Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds." --Unknown

• "...You reap what you sow."

• "If I had a flower for every time you make me smile and laugh, I would have a garden to walk in forever." Unknown

• "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow" --Audrey Hepburn

• We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have  roses. -Abraham Lincoln

• Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them. You’re always learning. –Helen Mirren

• My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. –Claude Monet

• Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.               -–Helen Keller

• If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. –-Cicero

• No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.  --Thomas Jefferson