Bonita Joy (DeVries) Rice

610 Payson Avenue, Quincy IL 62301

Author, publisher, editor, freelance writer,

Skills:

Employment:

• October 1998-March 2012 Walgreen Drug Store, Senior Beauty Advisor
• June 1985-October 1986 United States Air Force, Land Mobile Radio shop manager, trained in teletype maintenance

Self-Employment Timeline:

• 1987-1993 Special contributor for Prodigy ® Small Business Forum
• 1989-1995 Publisher of GET-O-LIFE Home Organization Newsletter
• 1990 Published WHATEVER WORKS as a PDF and WORD file booklet and distributed it online. Booklet is currently unavailable and being reworked into an eBook.
• 1987-1998 Contributed articles to online magazines including ParentsPlace ® and DollarStretcher ® as well as maintaining a website about home organization.
• 2006 Began writing draft copies of LOVE HAS ITS UPS AND DOWNS and sharing with interested persons.
• 2009 LOVE HAS ITS UPS AND DOWNS back from editor, final edits made.
• 2010 LOVE uploaded to Lulu.com, formatting errors discovered and corrected.
• 2010 LOVE reformatted for ebook and uploaded at Smashwords and later at Amazon.
• 2012 LOVE edited to reflect new website and released in paperback format
• 2012 STONE SOUP: Living on Less and WHATEVER WORKS: Home Organization for the Rest of Us set up as works in progress.

Education:

• April 2012 Attended Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop (EBWW)
• September 1979-May 1983 Calvin College and Seminary, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English degree with a minor in history
• September 1966-June 1979 Whitehall Public School, graduated high school