- Born and Live: Meridian, MS, a sweet magnolia from the magnolia state. And, a steel magnolia when need-be. Spent several years in Memphis and Austin, TX, to get to my home in Arkansas where I have been for the past 25 years.
- Raised: 5th Generation Meridianite, until I bolted for college. Great place to be from, a place where your bosoms can be fake, your smile can be fake, and your hair color fake, but your pearls and silver must always be real.
- Lineage: Mississippi-bred Southern Belle who knows what “Bless Your Heart” really means.
- Educated: University of Southern Mississippi, B.A. in Journalism, emphasis Public Relations, Minor: Spanish (I really wish I would have paid more attention to that now)
- Hubs: The extraordinary park ranger, who really is not a park ranger, he is a park superintendent, but he wears a brown uniform and sometimes a gun, in a holster, and a bullet proof vest. These senior tour bus groups can be a gnarly bunch.
- Responsible for: Saving the world, well, not really my Jesus already did that, but He has given us two children who we were charged with raising to be warriors that seek the face and heart of God, as they learn to wield a sword and conquer the ugly in this grand adventure called life.
- Day job: Owner, coffee-slinger at Petit Jean Coffeehouse, Content Curator/Editor of OnlyinArk.com for over a decade. Arkansas’s OG Blogger, Founder and CEO of The Women Bloggers which began as Arkansas Women Bloggers.
- Blog(s): I am known as The Park Wife in the internet world, of course, that is not my real name, I just pretend it is. It’s fun, and a little crazy. Yep, that about sums me up. I started blogging in 2007 as a way to express my inner writer and connect with… I really had no idea. Boy did we build an amazing bloggy world bag in the day.
- Other passions: Did I mention that I am married to a HOT park ranger? There’s my passion girls.
- Dream vacation: Small Italian village where I can grow a garden and have an 80-year-old Italian woman teach me all she knows about cooking and life.
- Find me on social media everywhere at @theparkwife