I'm a native of New Windsor, N.Y., and went to high school in Newburgh, N.Y. I graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984 and went directly to work as a journalist at the Register-Citizen in Torrington.
Over the last 25 years, I have worked as a reporter, editor and copy editor at The Day in New London, The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C., The Baltimore Sun and The Hartford Courant.
I live with my husband, Kevin Wyman; my son, a recent Hall graduate now at Muhlenberg College; my daughter, a Hall senior and a student at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts; and my daughter, a Hall sophomore.
I love to run, read and bake chocolate chip cookies, and I write fiction. My first novel, A Watershed Year, was published by Guideposts Books in March 2011. My second novel, The Virtues of Oxygen, is due out from Amazon Publishing in the summer of 2014.
Beliefs
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Politics
I'm a registered Democrat.
Religion
Though I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church, I'm now a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of West Hartford where I enjoy working on social service projects.
Local Hot-Button Issues
I support adequate funding for our local public schools, but I believe we need to look at ways to make the system more efficient. I also believe we need to lead the way in addressing the achievement gap issues so apparent in our state.
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