2024-2025 marks my 34th year of teaching English.

I grew up in Illinois, earned my undergraduate and Masters' degrees in Tennessee, and moved to Dallas, Texas as fast as I could to begin my teaching career in 1991.

My husband David and I will have been married 33 years this December. He retired from the Dallas County Adult Probation Dept. eight years ago.

Our 29-year-old son, Coleman, and his wife Louise live in Alpine, Texas, and became parents to Henry Perry Reidling in 2022. I am Vivi!  We are very proud of Coleman and his career choice as a pastor after earning his M. Div. from Truett Seminary at Baylor University in May 2020. 

Our 24-year-old daughter Audrey graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from West Texas A&M in May of 2022. She has spent two summers performing in "Texas--an Outdoor Musical" in Palo Duro Canyon and currently is a Voice Teacher at Renner Middle School in PISD and at Faubion Middle School in McKinney ISD.

Raising our children together in Plano these past 29+ years has been one of my greatest joys, and I have reached a nice balance for decades between motherhood, teaching secondary English, along with being involved in chauffeuring to practices for football, drill team, Boy Scouts' meetings, and choir performances on a continual basis!

Other than grading essays and preparing for classes, I do find time to enjoy aerobics, to watch the Dallas Mavericks' and the Dallas Cowboys' games, as well as to keep up with my favorite college basketball and football teams' games. I love dining out with family, church friends, and my English Dept. colleagues. Now that I am Vivi to our 2-year-old grandson Henry, I am sure some of my weekends and time away from school will be spent hugging on this precious little soul or visiting many family members in Nashville.