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Dee Shihady

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Roya Dee Shihady (Dee) is a humorist best known for her loving pokes at her large family and the young age she married and started parenting.

As an expert writing for serious articles Dee specializes in family and education, specifically parenting and adoption issues. She is now the retired Executive Director of Crystal Adoptions where she worked with potential parents and birth mothers nationally.

She is the mother of 6 children and grandmother of 18 and has also been a foster parent. She has a Bachelor of Education and has been a teacher for children as well as adults.

Dee's philosophy is that the two most important things in this world are family and education (in that order).
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Dee Shihady I know it's been done a million times and ways but I wonder if I would have made the same mistakes (married the same person, not gone to college until…moreI know it's been done a million times and ways but I wonder if I would have made the same mistakes (married the same person, not gone to college until later, etc.) if I had to do it all over again and know what I know now. (less)
Dee Shihady Since I started writing because it wasn’t appropriate to share anger and frustration in my world as a child for me writing is about working through my…moreSince I started writing because it wasn’t appropriate to share anger and frustration in my world as a child for me writing is about working through my emotions. Being a writer allows me to share the process with others in the same circumstance. There is something so satisfying about connecting with a reader in a way that allows them to also go from point A to point C without all the angst it took me to go through B. It feels like a kind of service in a way to say, “ I get it! What if we can laugh about that together?”(less)
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