 from the University of Louisville School of Law in 1995, and a Master of Fine Arts in writing from Spalding University.Thirty-six years old at the time, she rowed for eighty-one days, traveling , starting from the Canary Islands and finishing at Guadeloupe on December 3, 1999.Her boat, "Pearl", was twenty-three feet long, four feet high, and six feet wide and weighed about 1800 pounds.