With a background in journalism from Northern Illinois University (six weeks of writing obituaries almost ended a budding career), and an on-air stint at WVUM – the University of Miami’s radio station where she reported on local events and interviewed visiting celebrities (George Carlin being the most interesting), Sherry has a wide range of media experience.
Trained in theatrical improvisation at Chicago’s Second City workshop led to a very brief stand-up comedy appearance, local community theatre and bit parts in the Blues Brothers, Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Last Plane Out. Definitely not Tony or Oscar-worthy (can we say “cutting room floor”), but the experience was priceless. All of these mass communication formats laid the ground work to write with humor and insight, conduct ”at large” interviews and grab the gist of a story through the use of one photograph.
In 1992, Sherry gave up flying to become a Surface Traveler™ – and has cruised to incredible places without setting foot on an airplane. Most memorable are the 1,000 miles up the Amazon river round-trip from Ft. Lauderdale, a private tour of the Amber Room in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, tracing Hannibal’s footsteps in Carthage, Tunisia and cruising 2,500 miles on the Danube, Main and Rhine rivers from the Black Sea to the North Sea.
When not attempting easy French or Italian cooking, Sherry is learning to speak Italian, brushing up on rusty college French and evaluating new spinning luggage for her next trip to Europe. Those pesky aisles on European trains don’t accommodate one-directional wheeled suitcases.