After marriage and graduation, I had my first two children. I gave up on a career in medical illustration and tried to find a way to work from home as a freelance artist.  Amongst the clutter of toys I managed to clear off a space on the dining room table and illustrated my first published book, Inside A Freight Train, published by E.P.Dutton.  I published some craft projects, (my favorite being a mouse-house dollhouse, for Country Crafts), immediately followed by three coloring books for Dover Publications:  Musical Instruments, Musical Instrument Activities, and Tropical Fish.   (My published books can be found on amazon.com, although the train book is out of print and only available used.)  More recently, I did illustrations for Saltwater Sportsman magazine.

When my oldest child was in fourth grade, I worked with several other parents to launch an educational project called Solid Foundation Educational Association.  It offered, and still offers, part-time classes and clubs for homeschooled students.  SFEA has served hundreds of students over the past decade.  As I began teaching science classes, I found it difficult to find resources that were really what I wanted and needed in my classroom.  So I got out my old college texts, did some review, and started inventing my own stuff.  After several years, and many hours of independent study, I began writing my own texts to go with the activities  I had created, and thus began producing some full curricula.  During this time I also tried my hand at script writing and produced four plays, all of which were performed by our classical theatre program at SFEA, and two of which have now been published.