I became a bilingual Head Start teacher in Escondido. After that, I got married and stayed home with my children for a number of years. I went back to school to get my master’s in education. After I had turned in some work, a professor came up to me one day after class and asked me to stay after, and she asked me if I’d ever considered doing any professional writing. Up to that point, I hadn’t. But, you know, once she planted the seed, I really couldn’t stop thinking about it.
I finished my master’s, and I became an administrator of an early childhood program, and I did that for five years. But I was already starting to write.
