She really wanted to own a street vendor hot-dog stand in Portland, Oregon as a young bride but her husband voted against it.
She has worked as a waitress at Crater Lake National Park dining room, a teacher of braille, a secretary, and a sales lady in a department store.
She has twin sons who don’t look anything alike and are seven inches apart in height.
She eats the whole bag of popcorn all by herself, big gulps at a time. Her husband despises the taste, smell, and site of this particular food.
She’s driven across the United States and back three times.
She has visited Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Norway, England, Ireland, Scotland, and Canada. The fjords in Norway were her favorite.
Her maiden name is Vigen (sounds like the vegetable eater) and means little fjord. Now you know why she loves fjords.
She has taught everything from second to eighth grade. She found sixth graders to be the strangest of all and that’s why she loved them the most.
She has worked out whole sections of her books while riding her bicycle or cleaning the toilets. She recommends the first activity over the second any day.
She wanted to be a writer since the second grade, but her high school guidance counselor told her she’d never make it as a writer. Sometimes you just have to go with your own instincts
