I have my awards list up and an old resume up.

I’ve been a bookworm all my life. As a toddler I pestered any adult who would sit still long enough to read my favorite stories, again and again. In first grade, I couldn’t resist peeking ahead in my readers to find out what happened to Tuffy and Boots. On my eighth birthday, I bought a book with my gift money and was also old enough to get my own public library card. Whether library volumes or supermarket paperbacks, I haven’t been without a book at hand — usually several — in five decades.

It was probably inevitable that I would get a degree in English — after all, you “have to” read lots of books in English classes. But then what do you do with an English degree once you graduate? I started out as a reporter for a small suburban weekly newspaper. The first day on the job, the managing editor taught me how to “paste up” the paper. It was the beginning of a fascination with typography and layout, with the processes of design.

In the 20-plus years since then, I have created publications for corporations and non-profits large and small, been a freelance writer/editor/graphic designer, won a few awardsfor my work, edited a magazine, and moved into website design and book publishing.

I’m still in love with words and type and graphics, with getting all the details right.