Career

It was in Williamsburg that the idea of Women’s Lib really came home to me. I never had a career before Williamsburg. The summer after High School I worked for our local newspaper, The Daily NewsJournal and in college I wrote a weekly column for The Nashville Banner called, “Campus Capers” reporting on campus activities at that time. I thought about being a journalist. But when I got a Music Scholarship to Peabody College (Vanderbilt) all those ideas changed. I became a music major. I taught piano while living in Charlottesville and continued studying at Julliard while living in New York. I continued teaching when we moved to Northern Virginia (Epiphany and Walker Chapel). But all of this teaching was part time and I never thought of it as a career.

I was a part-time christian educator when we returned to Roanoke. When we knew we were moving to Williamsburg I saw that they needed a full-time Christian educator and oh, I wanted that job. But I had to wait. I finally got the job and for the first time I felt this was my calling, using all my talents—writing (I had already published 18 books ) and music (I led many workshops) and most important serving in the church.