I attended the University of Connecticut. I loved reading and took many English courses. I wanted to work with children and majored in Speech Pathology. I was very interested in Psychology too. I loved children’s books—carried over from the passion of my Mother—and began collecting my own. My best friend and I thought she would write one and I would illustrate it. I enjoyed drawing and art even though I didn’t know anything about illustration. The book was going to be about how to stop the hiccups. We never finished it.