Kimberly Dickert:  

Life Lets see---Got my Associates Degree in Business Management, then I obtained my Bachelor's Degree in English. Spent 13 years as a Restaurant Manager, then drifted through a few other jobs while trying to figure out what to do next. I never had children which was my dream and I was grieving for years. My first marriage broke up and then I married my best friend a few years later and we hit #15 this year. Terry said I should go back to school and pursue my childhood dream of teaching. I had wanted to teach history since age 10, but my first advisor told me I'd never get in the field of teaching & to find something else. (Seems like all the good jobs went to the older Boomers anyhow.) So in 2003 I went back to get my Master's in Social Sciences and graduated this past May (2006) from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA. I'm currently doing a Distance Learning Program thru Liberty University seeking a Master's or an Ed D in Education. Then I will teach, hopefully. Possibly I will get a Provisional License to teach this fall in English, History, Government & Geography. It's hard going back to school in your 40's -- your memory isn't what it used to be!! We presently live in Lynchburg, VA where my sister (Debbie Keay McPherson) lives and where my parents will be joining us this spring. They will be living across the street from each other. She was a nurse for years and now is a home schooling mom to her son and 2 daughters and is married to a Scotsman just like my Dad in case any of you remember. Dad was Director of Bethel Bible Village and he was in People Magazine, Guideposts and Southern Living Magazine (& a book has been published as well: "Child of Pain, Children of Joy"); plus, on Geraldo and Dobson) years ago for being a...Expand for more