Divorced from Evan (Jerry) Wright for 19 years. My dog, Shadow (a lovely Dalmatian) is my constant companion. He’s a better friend than my husband was!

Little red is my red-headed, petite daughter Amy, and her sports number was always 45, thus my email name. I tease that when I was 15 and babysat a lot, I had a “conversation” with the almighty and told him (or is it her?) that someday I wanted a red-headed girl. I lost 6 pregnancies before Amy and I have been paid back by her “temperament” every since. Actually she is getting better in her “old age and has turned out to be very nice and thoughtful. This is her first year teaching and she has learned to appreciate me as never before.

I used to teach the severely emotionally disturbed and violent (yes, physically so) students but after my mother was murdered in a home invasion robbery, my doctor insisted I teach regular education. I miss the special students, but am really enjoying all my second grade students. I am thinking about retiring next year, but who knows? Teaching has become much more difficult with many pressures under the No Child Left Behind Act. It’s still one of the best professions around.