I decided to become a reporter a long time ago when, as a kid in El Paso, Texas, I visited my hometown police station because I wanted to be a police woman. A reporter there wrote a story about me. A week later, he was injured covering a fire. I visited him in the hospital and decided that being a reporter was more important. I was in high school.
I studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and worked for the U.S. National Student Association and the World Assembly of Youth for three years after college. Then I moved to Washington D.C., and became a receptionist at the Wall Street Journal Bureau, which led to a full-time job at the new Dow Jones weekly newspaper, The National Observer. In 1970, my husband and I moved to Indianapolis and I worked for the News and The Star, 1971-2002, always in the culture corner. I have been a visual art critic, TV critic, theater critic and editor of an arts and leisure section. I have been retired since 2002.