Carol Frey was born in Huntington, West Virginia a long, long time ago, making her pretty old. She lived in a hotel during these early years, not because her parents paid to have her stay somewhere else, but because her father owned and ran the hotel, so that’s where they lived. She had a blast playing on the elevators and going into the kitchen where some nice person would usually make her some cinnamon toast in a giant-size toaster. When she was six years old her dad sold the hotel and the family moved to West Palm Beach, Florida where her mother’s family lived. From there on out Carol enjoyed the palm tree swaying, bike riding and going to the beach lifestyle.

In 1970 she left the deep North to move north to the deep South (Don’t grab your atlas, it’s all true.) to attend Auburn University where she graduated in 1974 with a B.S. in education. She decided that if she ever taught school her goal was to, hopefully, be a little smarter than her students. In 1975, after a one-year stint of teaching and realizing that her plan had failed, she made an excellent decision and married her husband of now thirty-three years, Paul Frey. They didn’t date a whole lot before they married, Carol thinking it best that he learn as little as possible about her until they had tied the knot. It worked out great for her and well, it worked out great for her. They have three delightful children: Jonathan, Brian and Sarah. And the boys have two delightful wives (not two each), Daniell and Gail respectively.

For the last thirty years Carol has been doing things like laundry, home schooling her children until they begged to go away to school, and then some more laundry. Oh yes, and cooking too. Can’t forget the cooking. In fact she liked the cooking part so much that after her daughter left home for college, Carol decided to write a cookbook which has now become two cookbooks. She also does some freelance writing, some of which has been published in Accent Gwinnett Magazine, but most of which just keeps Carol occupied as she sits in front of her computer. She’s easily amused.