Dora studied journalism at the University of Tennessee and worked for several newspapers in Arkansas and Tennessee before settling down to life as a Navy wife. She also wrote a column f...view more Dora studied journalism at the University of Tennessee and worked for several newspapers in Arkansas and Tennessee before settling down to life as a Navy wife. She also wrote a column for The Albany Herald in Georgia, and while waiting for her husband’s expected return from Hanoi she hosted a television talk show and was a “weather girl” at WALB--TV. Today Dora lives with her husband, retired Navy Captain Jim Bell in Alexandria, Virginia and most of her writing is limited to accounts of their travels to countries around the worldview less