Education

• Institute of Children's Literature
• West Mifflin Area High School

Favorite saying

• "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great ~ Mark Twain Be a first rate version of yourself, never a second rate version of somebody else ~ Judy Garland Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end If the whole world believes in an eye for an eye, then the whole world is blind ~ Winston Churchill It's actually kind of fun to do the impossible ~ Walt Disney First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gahndi Don't laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much Speak your mind even if your voice shakes "I shall take the heart," replied the tinwoodman. "For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ...the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones . . . L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ...we have this strength inside of us and yet we are taught to always sort of keep it down. I sort of found in my life that I've taken a step back and made myself smaller in order to try and fit in. And that hasn't worked. And we have to learn to kind of embrace what makes us unique and embrace our strength and then if people don't like it, fuck it ~ Idina Menzel Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds ~ Albert Einstein"