My Life
My Family
My Home
Becoming a Writer
What I Like to Do

my big sister and me at the beach

My Life I used to be a child. I know that’s not unusual. But I wanted to stay a child. I figured it was a good deal. I got free food and I didn’t have to go to work. I grew up (sort of) in Roslyn, Long Island, about 25 miles from New York City, where I was born. In high school, I was elected class comedienne.

my husband, my son, and I visiting our daughter when she was in school in London

My Family My husband, Alan Ticotsky, and I have been married for 31 years. We met in college. Al is a middle school science and social studies teacher. He writes books too—about how to teach science. Click here to see Alan's books. My daughter, Becky, works at an educational publisher in Cambridge. My son, Charlie, is a college student.

visiting with my duck friends by my backyard stream (OK, I admit it—I was so excited to see them that I went outside in my nightgown.)

My Home I live in Lexington, Massachusetts, not far from Boston. My house has a big collection of my favorite animals--elephants. I don’t have any real ones (at least not yet), but I have elephants made of clay, metal, wood, plastic, fabric, rock, and glass. I have elephant vases, mugs, place mats, wind-up toys and even an elephant pen. My yard has a stream. Rabbits, wild turkeys, muskrats, and woodchucks visit us. Every spring, a pair of mallard ducks swims in the stream and waddles around in our yard.

........me in kindergarten.................me in college

Becoming a Writer I liked to write as soon as I learned the alphabet. I loved school assignments like “Write a Story Using All the Spelling Words.” In high school I was an editor of the school paper. Later, I had jobs as a newspaper reporter, an advertising writer, and a creative writing teacher. Besides writing books, I have written stories for children’s magazines. Now I am a writing tutor at a college in Boston.

my husband and me on a bike trip in Maine

What I Like to Do I like to laugh, ride a bike, watch the Red Sox play baseball, do crossword puzzles, travel, and sing along to rock ‘n’ roll music. Oh, and I like to write and to talk to school groups about writing.

© 2006 Jane Sutton