Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Connie resides in the island community of Tierra Verde, which is connected to the "rest of the world" at the southernmost tip of St. Petersburg, Florida.  She enjoys life on the sun coast with her husband, Tom, and their shelter-adopted dog, a miniature Dachshund, named Moby (after the whale--because shhhhh . . . he thinks he's, well, big). 

Before relocating to the Sunshine State, Connie served as Station Manager at WMKV 89.3 FM.  The station features a big band music format and went on-the-air in 1995 as the nation's first FM educational public radio station to be licensed to a retirement community--Maple Knoll Village in Springdale, Ohio.  Thomas took early retirement from his 24-year career as an Engineering Manager at The Procter & Gamble Company and now enjoys the shorts and flip flop lifestyle as a recreational sailor (now boat captain) and astronomer.  Moby, adopted from SPCA of Tampa Bay, is considered a hometown hero (email the author for details).  His happy disposition and willingness to wag his tail (on a bipartisan basis with other neighborhood dogs), has garnered him an unofficial title--as Mayor of Tierra Verde!

When Connie is not busy helping people buy and sell or rent real estate as a Broker Associate with Wave Realty of Tampa Bay, she enjoys reading and writing.  She is a veteran member of Veterans of Southern Pinellas County and serves as President of Friends of Tierra Verde. Connie and Tom enjoy sailing and photography, and spend "family time" together everyday, taking walks along the beaches at Ft. DeSoto Park and around their Monte Cristo neighborhood, with their dog, Moby.  As the focus of her graduate studies in the Red Earth Low Residency MFA Program at Oklahoma City University, she is working on a collection of short stories (based on Charles Darwin's Abominable Mystery Theory, which attempts to identify the Earth's first flowering plant, each of the stories has a female protagonist) and is writing short fiction, creative non-fiction, and essays.  Tom is also at work, finalizing his manuscript for a non-fiction book based on his passion (and second love . . . OK, maybe first love)--Astronomy.