Virginia is an energetic, enthusiastic, professional achiever who had the privilege of being born with a womb mate. She and her identical twin grew up, with everyone guessing who was who, along the shores of Lake Erie, in a suburb of Cleveland. Except for a southern sojourn to earn a Baccalaureate degree at Samford University, Virginia continues to live just around the corner from her childhood home. Known for its nationally lauded school system, as well as its quaint, small town atmosphere, her town is, and has been, a blessed place to not only raise her four children, but also from which to venture into life’s varied experiences. No matter where she goes or lives, now or in the future, home is truly within her heart and soul.
Virginia’s creative genes made their debut at an early age when she and her twin finger painted their mom’s kitchen with Crisco. While the girls most definitely felt it was a gloriously freeing experience, their Mother was not on their same wavelength.
Scarcely applauded as a masterpiece, Virginia’s creativity went undercover for some years. There was, however, a brief creative resurgence when, as a Brownie, Virginia created her first book, hand binding the pages and covering it with turquoise felt. Resurrecting her creative yearnings as a young mother of four little children, Virginia created assorted gifts and decorating items for her Calico Corner Christmas Boutique held in her home every November for five years.
After single handedly raising four pre-teen children to wonderful, talented, successful adults, Virginia once again re-ignited her creative genes, including creativity with Crisco! (she loves the culinary arts).
With her Ohio, Alabama, and Georgia ancestry, Virginia is a patchwork quilt of experiences and interests. You might find her pointing her camera lens at the Amish countryside or at architecture half a world away or at a bird in her backyard. For Virginia, nothing in life is better than the intense joy of birding with an expert in a high mountain forest, chalk drawing on the sidewalk with her grandsons(who are far more talented), writing on a tablet beside her town’s gurgling creek, having coffee in a quaint café, touring a vineyard, talking on the phone with a childhood friend(what else is a woman to do?), sitting by her fireplace on a wintry day reading her favorite author’s latest novel, arranging a bouquet of flowers from her garden, enjoying the blessings of a Bible study, inventing a culinary creation for an innovatively decorated dinner party or being wowed by God’s creation in a sunrise, sunset, or a rainbow arching across the plains(whew! that list left her breathless. She’s in search of chocolate for energy!). Virginia, the epitome of grace with success and integrity, loves experiencing all the wows of life with enthusiastic energy and excitement.
Her in- house “editors” are “the boys”. Cody, the two year old chocolate tabby cat, is the bane of the existence of four year old Sneakers, always looking very dapper in his sleek furry black tux with his white “collar and shirt”, the white star on his forehead and his four white spats/paws (or “sneakers” as the case may be). When not totally glued to
window watching the birds at Virginia’s office the feeders, which, as totally indoor cats they can only dream of “cat-ching”, they are either romping through the house or cat napping in a ball on Virginia’s lap or somewhere close by experiencing her wonder-filled world.
