I am a long-time resident of Orlando, FL and have been employed for 26 years as a Compliance Officer & Financial Operations Manager at a Florida-based financial planning and brokerage company.

I learned my first line dance in 1994 when I reluctantly allowed my daughter to drag me off to a country bar one Saturday night. To my surprise, I loved it immediately!  My only complaint was that I only learned three dances that night, and I had to spend the rest of the night sitting on a stool watching the fun. Since then, I have done my best to spend as little time as possible sitting on the sidelines! I have also met some of my greatest friends in the world on the dance floor!

I really enjoyed dancing and attended many classes, but I never really planned to be a dance teacher. However, at the urging of some of my dance class friends, I took the plunge with a small class in the Longwood area north of Orlando in 2003. I found that I really enjoyed it and the class has been so much fun to do!

Around that same time, I also started going to Guyton Mundy's dance class in Orlando, FL and found him to be a very talented and gracious young man. He later asked me to join him in teaching a new class together. I was pleased and honored to do so and we held the class at DanceOrlando in Longwood for over a year and then for a few more months at Jesse Black's Saloon in Orlando. Guyton is now traveling the world teaching at great events.  I have now ventured out on my own with two classes a week in Altamonte Springs, in addition to trying to encourage a new crop of beginners.

I look forward to going to dance events to meet new and old friends, and to learn all the new dances.  I have experienced writing a few dances of my own to some music that I enjoyed, and have competed with them in choreography several times.

My family is composed of my daughter and son in law, and my two wonderful grandsons. My older grandson, Bradley is learning to line dance and is my best helper at the Sunday Social every month.  Parker is our youngest and he has just started walking at nine months +.  So many wonderful blessings for which to be thankful!!

updated 8-17-2008