My two professional strengths are teaching and developing materials for English as a Second Language. I have a lifetime teaching credential from California and an MA in Education (1978). For the master's degree, I wrote a thesis on second language acquisition in children. I was able to put that degree to use with my own children and in private ESL courses while living in Mexico City. Back in the U.S., I taught elementary school and then moved into beginning adult ESL at a community college in 1987. I developed an off-campus multimedia lab while at that college. After having taught beginning levels for several years, I concentrated on advanced writing during my MA studies in Teaching English as a Second Language (1994). I have taught classes at Eastern Michigan University, and have been an ESL technology consultant for the University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor Public Schools.

In addition to teaching and family, most of my time in the past few years has been dedicated to international women, graduate students, and writing projects. I have taught an investigative Bible study for international women for five years, and I have discipled a few Christian international women each year. Since coming to Michigan in 1991, I have been working with my husband's ministry to graduate students and faculty at the University of Michigan. However, the writing projects are now taking priority. In addition to the Bible Exploration Workbooks, I have been writing software for ESL. I have a beginning adult ESL CD-ROM on the market with lifeskill-oriented lessons. This first project was published in 1992 and the second CD-ROM, a sequel, is just out on the market.

My husband is now an apologetics specialist with InterVarsity. He has been on staff since college with the exception of our years in Claremont, California where he worked on his Ph.D. in Philosophy. Our time in Mexico was unofficially with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. We have worked with and lived with internationals for all of our twenty-five years of married life. Our sons are both students at the University of Michigan, and are twenty-one and twenty-three years old.