An avid fan of literature and music has managed to find a way to combine both and help make things better at the same time.  What more could a person hope for?  That’s the story behind Kim’s dedication to the Opry North ideal, in a nutshell.  A lifetime of reading has resulted in a collection of books that no friends will help move again (so she’s been told) and that reading has always prompted the writing that followed right behind.  While writing fiction for fun had always been a hobby it was never seriously considered ‘career-worthy’, even though many teachers must have thought so from the amount of urgings to enter writing contests.  A hankering for archeology brought on a ‘researcher’ consideration for a while and a fascination with law (that continues to this day) had the ‘lawyer’ thing going too…but school was something that had to be endured, wasn’t that much of a challenge and neither occupation really had enough going for it to ‘endure’ the amount of education that must preclude the final outcome – a ‘degree’. 

   So, for lack of interest in anything else Kim drifted through a series of what “Wayne’s World” referred to as jobs that required a “substantial collection of hairnets and nametags”.  There’s probably not much that she hasn’t cooked or rung through the register at one time and that continues to this day.  But now, when the ‘workday’ is over it’s time to use the old gray matter for something useful…like putting country music and it’s artists in this country where they should be – front and centre.  Co-ownership of Opry North and the subsidiary companies Whitepaw Productions and Northern Star Entertainment have allowed Kim to use the organizational abilities learned from all of those jobs as well as that long held fascination with research, music, writing and ‘administration’.  Formulating promotional ideas to be ‘honed’ with co-owner Wayne, handling correspondence from artists, industry personnel and media, research, writing, administrative duties for the three companies and a very determined desire to succeed and expand to benefit the companies and individual artists are the jobs that mean the most to Kim now.  Providing encouragement, support (both emotional and the pat-on-the-back kind) and her friendship is part of the package too – not a job, but a pleasure.