About Paula

Paula grew up in a farm in southern Iowa, where she learned how (not) to drive a tractor, what it’s like to chase cattle in your nightgown in the dead of night, and the grim realities of the food chain (especially as it pertained to a calf she’d named Romeo). But she also learned what it meant to be a true neighbor from her loyal dad, as well as the power of genuine hospitality as an unspoken ministry from her kind and compassionate mom.

After graduating from college with an English degree, she married a boy she’d known since she was 5 but didn’t start dating until after high school graduation. Starting out teaching high school Language Arts, Paula left teaching after 4 years and began writing and editing. She currently works part-time as a features content coordinator for a statewide newspaper.

After growing up in a family with three girls, Paula found herself raising three boys. Admittedly still perplexed at how the male brain works, she has learned to embrace the boogers and burps that come alongside the kisses and bedtime snuggles (well, most of the time). She started her blog (www.boogersandburps.com) in April 2008 to share her crazy and often humorous life as the only female in a house with three boys, a husband, a male dog, and a bird and fish whom she suspects are both of the male persuasion as well.