Sharon Pearce graduated from Midwestern Broadcasting School, Chicago, IL at age 20, obtaining an FM Third Class Engineers License; and entered broadcasting as an all-around radio voice, news gatherer and reporter, weather reporter, commercial writer and FM Music DJ and Programmer. She worked as sole personnel on the FM night shift of an AM/FM radio station in downstate Illinois. At 23 she became the Feature News Editor of the Naperville IL edition of the Aurora Beacon News, a Copley newspaper.
She relocated to Los Angeles where she studied voice and singing, developed accent and dialect skills, and performed in stage plays and entertainments. She attended Los Angeles City College and California State University at L.A. where she earned a BA in Theater Arts. She wrote a number of one-act plays, and a three-act play.
In 2014 she studied astrology more formally, and began writing about it in 2016. She began posting writing to the free publishing online site, Booksie.com, in 2016. Under her name as author there can be found serious essays on politics and culture, as well as travel articles and focused writing on housing needs in America and homelessness.
In 2019 she originated and published bimonthly an innovative free newspaper, NEWSCIE, covering the North Delta of Central California, the West Coast and Pacific Rim. She was content writer, editor, photographer, publisher, and advertising manager. Its website https://spnews-cie.squarespace.com operated from 2028-2021. She also designs calendars and gas/travel logs.
In 2023 she became a local contract journalist for mpg8.com, Messenger Publishing Group, covering public interest for four to five newspapers in the Sacramento, CA area. She is readying an election year podcast to focus on south central California congressional races through the year of 2024, plus other comments on culture and politics.
Orchid Said It at the Time, is a fun entry level introduction to aspects of planets in astrological transits relating to planets in charts of nations, leaders and incidents in the world, narrated by fictional Orchid Whitestone, with some whimsy. It is a light read for bedside or travel of a subject finding a growing readership. Ms Pearce writes light humor, as well as seriously on politics and culture. She feels she is an essayist…and also a whimseyist!
She has also created the character of Aunt Twerpy Van Twerple, a mystical +400 year-old Dutch muse who walks the country teaching of the original, vast contributions of the Dutch to making America what it became. A work in progress, she appears in short video recordings at Ms. Pearce's Facebook page.