Diane served as copy editor, proofreader, writer and historian for a major Florida publishing firm for more than a dozen years. The company publishes Florida Living Magazine, Florida Naturalist and The Real Florida, among many other periodicals. She has edited and proofed several books and personal memoirs. Currently working as a freelance writer and copy editor, she thinks of herself as the “BASF” editor—not writing the copy, but making it better.

      Diane's interests include a love of American history and showing her family every Civil War battlefield north and south of the Mason-Dixon Line and every roadside historical marker. The family's sojourns have included camping in all lower 48 states in a pop-up trailer and then tracing the routes in red lines on their large wall map of the United States. Following each three-week vacation across the country, Diane writes a 150-plus page trip diary about their journeys to new lands. Maybe someday her three kids will read these diaries.

      She currently works with the University of Florida's Oral History program, editing and summarizing transcribed interviews that the program staff has conducted over the years.