About Me

I am in school now pursuing my second career.  What most people don’t know about me is my life before school or what I call my first career.  For 18 years, I was a dance teacher and choreographer.  Five days a week I would put on my pointe shoes and massage the hopes and dreams of little girls to become ballerinas.  My feet bled.  My muscles ached.  My hours were atrocious.  And I loved every minute of it.  I was married in 2002 to Shawn Coleman.  In 2004, our first child was born, Maxwell.  It was then that I realized that I could not keep up these hours much longer or I would never see my son.  I began to think about what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.  I am not like most people in the program.  I did not always know that I wanted to be a teacher.  I did know that I could reach children, especially those in high school.  I did know that I loved to read and write.  Finally, during one of our many conversations about where my life was going to go, my husband gave me an ah-ha moment.  “Why don’t you teach English?”  In that second, I knew he was right, and I enrolled at KSU the following semester.

My life is pretty hectic now.  I am an aerobics teacher, a full-time wife, a mother of two, and a full-time student.  I am often up at 2:00 in the morning writing papers and completing assignments, but I can’t wait for this next chapter to begin.