Originally from Deltaville, VA, I have been living in Greenville, NC since 95. I jump back and forth between Greenville and Chapel Hill. I have a BS in Construction Management and an MS in Digital Communications. One of my ultimate goals is to work in the Smart Home industry. I'm currently an instructor at Pitt Community College and the opportunities seem to abound there but no full time work just yet.

I teach Technical Writing, Inventory Management, Operations Management and Detailed Planning and Scheduling. These courses are either on a rotation schedule or will be soon. I am working with a gentleman on a Lean Manufacturing curriculum. I enjoy being a part of building something.

I really love working with technology. Give me something to do with it, and if I don't know it, I'll teach myself to work with it. I enjoy photography, gardening, writing, the beach and just about anything to do with technology. 

My biggest pet peeve is, "Being a single parent is not an excuse." It's one thing that motivates me to want more for where I live, how I live, etc. Remembering this protects me from the "I can't do this or that because..s". I have had to build things for a while to "make do" as a single mom, but I never said, "I can't do this because I ... don't know how...don't have money...am a girl..." When I take on a project, I remember that I've always been in worse atmospheres and then I go for it. 

I like DIY projects. I've built and remodeled things for myself and others. My latest thing was to find a plan for a bed, and that is how I found Curbly. I intend to build a platform bed that I found the plan for on this site. (I just love Googling things!) I will be revising the plan to use 100% recycled items. I was supposed to have begun doing this about a month ago but my sister in law's chemo treatments changed this week and I'm "off schedule" for my DIY projects.  It's now on the backburner.  I still have a storage unit that needs to be cleared, too. I hope to come across things that I may have forgotten in storage that I can put to good use.