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Karen's Bio

                                           

                                      I really, really hate that band around my neck. It looks like I was             decapitated and then reconnected.

 
 

To summarize:

Karen is born  roughly 1960-something ish.

Attended school.

Worked at various jobs.

Had a family.

Wrote. 

Will the fun never end?

Is it just me, or does anyone else think of the word "bayou" when they hear "bio?" And isn't there a song about a bayou that goes: something something something cherry pie-o? And then, son-of-a-gun having big fun on the bayou? Now that sounds a lot more exciting than hearing about my life.

But anyway, here's my bio--written mostly in third person, as if someone else did it:

bullet Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the second of four daughters, sometime during the 1960s. A very fine decade for being born, indeed.
bulletGrew up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin and went to the public schools, even though she'd rather have been home reading.
bulletAttended the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Held various character-building jobs--waitress, payroll clerk, house cleaner, retail etc. Had to quit going to college because she could not find parking.
bulletMarried Greg McQuestion, and had three children, Charlie, Maria and Jack. Wonderful, wonderful kids. None of them ever gave her a moment's worry. (It's been far more than a moment, believe you me). Hee--only kidding, of course!
bulletOnce the kids got older and she started getting more than four hours of sleep a night, she began freelance writing. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Wisconsin Academy Review and CNI Newspapers. You'd think she'd be happy, but no. Now she's writing books. Let's just see how that goes....

 

 

 

 

 

 


These images came with the Web page. Here's me, pretending to be a dolphin.


What do you suppose this is? I was thinking cheetah, but now I'm not so sure... We'll just call it a big cat.


Yes, the world's a better place because of my website. (Or is this actually the moon? I'll have to find out, because it wouldn't make any sense to say the moon's a better place because of my website.)