Frances O. Thomas is a freelance writer and a National Certified Counselor who lives with her husband in Florida. She was born and raised in Munhall, PA, the daughter of a steelworker.
After toiling joylessly in the insurance industry for a number of years, Fran threw in the towel and returned to the University of Pittsburgh where she earned a master's degree in Psychology in Education. For extra money during and following grad school, she dusted off her undergraduate English degree and began freelancing for a monthly publication called Successful Women, inspected restaurants and wrote safety reports, and ate and drank in exchange for evaluations written as a mystery shopper.
A subsequent stint with Junior Achievement allowed her to use her business background and interest in education to recruit and train volunteers to teach economic concepts to school children. One of those volunteers became Fran's co-author of a career counseling textbook for middle schoolers.
Switching gears yet again, Fran became the editor/sole reporter/photographer for a weekly community newspaper. This position offered the opportunity to cover anything and everything that occurred on an island in the Gulf of Mexico from elementary school Christmas pageants to angry confrontations between recreational boaters and the Feds.
Currently on sabbatical from all of the above, Fran is once more freelancing. In her spare time, she sings with the Fort Myers Chorale for whom she once portrayed a shepherd in the chorus of Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Frances O. Thomas is a freelance writer and a National Certified Counselor who lives with her husband in Florida. She was born and raised in Munhall, PA, the daughter of a steelworker.