Carolee Dean Revealed
Revealing Questions
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. What you believe shapes who you become!
- Q. What’s your fantasy profession?
- A. Tour guide at Disneyland. I don't even know if this job exists anymore, but when I was a kid my grandmother took me to Disneyland every summer. I always saw these people leading around tourists and taking them on all the rides. I thought that was the best job in the world because you got to go on the rides over and over again. I still think that would be the best job in the world.
- Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?
- A. Pizza
On Books and Writing
- Q. How did you come to write Take Me There?
- A. I'm very lucky because I get to spend every day in a place where dramas unfold before my very eyes...
High school.
I work with a lot of teenagers who come from difficult living situations. They dream of a better life, yet often find themselves drawn into destructive cycles. Watching them and remembering my own adolescent experiences with friends I loved and friends I lost, inspired me to write TAKE ME THERE.
My high school years were pretty dismal but now I get a chance to walk through them again, and hopefully make a difference. Sometimes I do that as an educator and sometimes I do that as a writer.
