Bobbi Faulkner has been a high school teacher for twenty years--ESL, reading, all levels of English, creative writing, and drama, and an EC teacher as well as full time-mentor. She has a BS in English, a Masters in Reading, and an EdS in Educational Leadership, higher education, with a focus on literacy. She is ABD for her EdD in Educational Leadership. She enjoys hiking, backpacking, kayaking, painting, reading, writing, skydiving, and spending time with family in North Carolina where she resides. She loves cheese! She won several awards for poetry in her college years and maintains three blogs with a wide readership. She is the author of the children's book, Can You Count the Toes, the collection of poetry, Herself: Pieces of Me, and the novel, Candy, Sweet & Sour.