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When I was a junior in high school, I was in the OJT program.  I got a scholarship to go to Beauty School. 

I graduated in June 1974 from White Bear Lake High School, and in July I graduated from the Academy of Hairdressing in St. Paul, MN. 

My instructor got me a job at the Poudour Pouf Beauty Salon in Fridley, MN .  His friend Sandy Bennett was twenty-eight and the new owner of the salon.  She and Bob Parsons went to Beauty School together, and started their first jobs at Toni's Hair Fashion in Little Canada MN.

Success came easy to me.  I was attracted to fashion, hair salons, and make-up at the age of five.  If I was near the smell of a perm, I had to follow my nose to the window and gaze in at the pretty ladies with their beautiful hair and make-up. 

My mom was lucky.  I use to play with her hair for two hours at a time, a couple day's a week while she sat in the rocking chair reading the paper, and the family would be watching movies. 

Just before ten pm, I would have her look into the mirror.  I asked her to look at the back of her hair too.  She would reply, "Well you're absolutely a back person".  I have since inproved.

By the time I got married and had kids, I had built up my business so well.  One of my customers said,"Why don't you open your own business?"  I took his advice.  I opened a salon in my home.

Years later, when the kids got older, they started bringing the cops home, I decides to answer an ad at JCPenney Salon in Roseville.  I brought over two-hundred customers with me and built up even more business.  I became an all-star within my first year. 

In 2005, JCPenney opened a new store in the Maplewood Mall.  I've been their Salon Leader since.

I love the hair industry.  I feel like I just started my career.

During the eighties I became interested in writing.  I just didn't think I had enough life experiences yet to write.

In 2006 after attending the Golden Glove Championships in St. Cloud, MN, I started to write a short story called The Boxer.  I stayed up until two in the morning to finish it. 

Other short stories and recipe books I have written are: Tommy's Story, The Weeds of My Desire, The Widow's Woe's, The Moon Was There, Smoothies That Kids Love, and RiceCrispy Susi.

These stories have led me to begin writing a true story that's very close to my heart.  It's about a guy whose life was saved by boxing. 

I've known coach Larry E. Goodman for fifteen years, and I have found his life to be very interesting.  He has been helping himself and kids through his boxing career of sixty-six years.

Multiple boxers that he has coached have turned Pro. 

He is currently working with a prize boxer, Robert Brant.  They are preparing, and have their sights on the 2012 Olympics.