My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

Patricia Petro is a skilled administrative assistant, poet, writer, and web designer.

She first appeared on the web during the summer of 2002 when she launched her website, Summersong's Inspiration for the Spirit. It was an ambitious endeavor for someone who had never tackled HTML before. Patricia quickly learned how to code pages, layer tables, use frames, add graphics, JavaScript and flash—as she experimented with different design styles, elements, and graphic artists.

What began as a hobby soon became a passion. The site was an immediate success. After undergoing renovations in 2003 and 2004, it steadily grew from a simple ten-page layout to more than 150 pages. In 2005, Patricia redesigned the site and divided it into five more-manageable sections. By 2007, Inspiration for the Spirit evolved and grew even more. Patricia considers it a work still in progress. "A website is a living entity and reflection of its owner," she explains. "It should evolve, mature, and grow just as we do."

In 2004, Patricia began taking on custom web design work. Her projects ranged from complete commercial sites to simple personal pages and weekly church newsletters. In March 2006, she designed and developed her own state-of-the-art online gift shop, Our Empty Nest. The store showcases over 300 products with open-source shopping cart technology, MySQL driven data, and complex PHP-coded pages. That same year, she went online with her web design business and opened Sweet Solutions.

Patricia dabbles in just about everything creative. She draws and paints. . .loves music, movies, and the theater. . .and is an avid photographer, gardener, and interior decorator. She has won awards for her artwork; and several of her framed watercolors, oil paintings, and silk embroideries hang in her home.

She also writes—poetry, creative pieces, and novels—and has several manuscripts started. Works in progress include a digital scrapbook geneology, a semi-autobiographical novelette, an historical romance, and a non-fiction history of the super rich in NYC during The Golden Age.

Future projects include: Mandala art and DVD photo films.

Patricia has two grown children and lives in a little house on a lake in Northwest Ohio with a cat, dog, and her partner, Tom.

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