“For years, I was a single parent and work-at-home mom, writing novels and raising three kids. Each attended the Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High School, and all stuck with the arts.
Jaisen is a senior at University of South Florida in printmaking and photography, Jaimee a senior at University of North Carolina in Asheville in sculpture. Juli graduated from New York University in theater and is in the a graduate program at CalArts, with a triple focus — writing, directing and acting.
Given all that gentility, it came as quite the shock when one of my kids announced the intent to be a boxer. It was especially startling coming from my daughter, my baby.”