In school, I loved all things art but also math and science.  I spent my first year of college at The Ohio State University on a swimming scholarship but decided to transfer to Purdue University to focus more time on my major.  After I graduated from Purdue University with a degree in chemical engineering, I started drawing If They Could Talk cartoons in 1996 as a fun hobby.  In 2003, my parents convinced me to send them to a local weekly paper in the town I lived in. I got an interview, and they started paying me for my cartoon each week. At the same time, a co-worker sent my cartoons to the Oprah Show and I got a call back from a producer, which was very exciting even though I didn’t get asked to be on the show.

 

After submitting and not hearing back from the big syndicates, I sent emails with links to my cartoons to many weekly small local papers to self-syndicate. At one point, I was published in over fifty small papers. I drew a weekly cartoon over a span of eleven years until unfortunately, many local papers could no longer support a cartoon budget, and several went out of business. In 2014, I took a break since I was extremely busy with my family and day job.  In October 2019, I had several ideas for cartoons and felt a strong urge to start drawing again. I started a Facebook and Instagram page for my fans.  I'm originally from Indiana and I lived in North Carolina for 16 years.  I currently work at Alcon and live in Fort Worth, TX with my husband, cat Zip and our son when he comes home from college.