Where should I start? My interest in languages began when I was studying abroad in Italy through School Year Abroad. I’d taken Spanish throughout middle and upper school, but in Italy, I started studying Italian and Latin. Seeing the route various words had taken absolutely fascinated me.
This interest deepened during the year I spent in the Middle East in college. After a fall in Egypt and a spring in Israel, I’d experienced just about every method of vocabulary instruction out there, and I’d developed strong feelings about what works!
After college I began writing and teaching. I taught middle school English and history in Dallas (and loved every minute of it), but when my son was born, I settled into writing.
My time in Egypt eventually turned into the book Ahead of Her Time.
The idea of a vocabulary-boosting novel was so popular, it gave birth to Vocabbett!