I cut my working teeth as a news reporter with a ecumenical beat, covering human interest, politics, crime, celebrity, beauty make-overs -- even royal weddings and funerals. At various times I lived and worked in Norfolk, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, London, Paris and Boca Raton. For more than 35 years I criss-crossed the globe with first a typewriter, later a computer, coughing up articles for national entertainment magazines. Until that day. In 2010.  When I hung it all up to became a Realtor -- something I'd thought a lot about during all those years on the road.

So why choose me when there are lots other Realtors out there to choose from?