Margaret Collins:  

I went to Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas after I graduated and then married in 1966. I finished my degree at SMU and taught junior high in San Antonio for a year before we started our family. We moved to Dallas and raised three wonderful daughters. I didn't work full time until the youngest was in elementary school. Then, I started a 20 year career in not-for-profit management, first for Camp Fire in Dallas and then for MADD in Dallas/Fort Worth. I especially loved the public policy work I did for MADD as well as the public relations. Learned a great deal about death and dying, too, as well as the grief process for family members. I did a lot of fundraising for MADD (and continue to some of that through my consulting business at present). We are very proud of our daughters. One is an attorney, another is an artist (documentary maker) and the other is an actress. We have two grandsons (children of the attorney). Church is a big part of our lives and my husband and I teach Disciple 1 for our local Methodist church. I am very involved in Master Gardening and love to spend time in the garden. We also love to entertain friends. I also love politics and this election year has been very interesting. I'm close to being a yellow dog Democrat (which won't surprise some of you who knew I was always more liberal on civil rights issues). I'm supporting Obama this year and have gone to two of his rallies in the DFW area. I attended the Senate District Convention (thousands showed up to vote their delegates to the state convention). Since I semi-retired several years ago, my husband and I have been traveling more, in spite of his continuing to work. In 2006 we wen...Expand for more