Born and raised in Los Angeles, I am the adventurous daughter of William and Julia Brown. Had fun in elementary, somehow made it through the junior high years full of annoying boys, and landed at high school with a modicum of sanity.   At 16, I ventured to Finland as a Foreign Exchange Student. The Raisanens are a wonderful family. We keep in touch to this very day! In Finland, the sun does not set for several weeks during the summer. Alas, the brightness of the sun kept me from sleeping as much as I would have liked during my stint, but it did not stop the fun!   Fast forward to my college years at USC. Bitten by the "foreign exchange bug," I journeyed to Cuernavaca. The lovely Marquez-Morales family took very good care of me. The flying cockroaches also contributed to making this trip unforgettable.   After earning my degree in Journalism, it was off to Reno to work the assignment desk at the NBC affiliate. A couple of things made this stint bearable - Cafe de Thai (How is it going, Chef Sakul?) and shopping.   A couple of years later, Texas came a-callin.' I headed off to the ABC affiliate in a small city in the southern part of the state where we were inundated by crickets, then frogs, then the great flood. What a bizarre year!   A short while later, I am offered a job in Beaumont at the ABC affiliate. After a most unhappy year, I flitted off to Houston where I wrote for four publications. While living in the land of the best corn chips ever (thanks, Pappasito's!), I was bitten by the acting bug. I moved back to L.A. late in 2005. It is great to be home!