In 1998, Sarah graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Education. Soon after graduating, she signed a teaching contract with Somonauk School District as a Special Education Teacher. During her first year of teaching, she saw need for improvement in the area of reading with her students. After doing thorough research and testing sample programs, she approached her superior about purchasing a new reading program called Corrective Reading that would emphasize critical thinking skills, logic, phonics, expository text--specifically designed for students with learning disabilities. With the support of her superior, she went ahead and presented a power point presentation to the parent organization about Corrective Reading. The parent organization ended up financing most of the purchase of the program--thus empowering students with special needs to gain critical reading and learning skills needed to function in the literate world. During her second year of teaching, Sarah co-piloted the reading program and took maternity leave to have her first-born son, Gabriel Frielink.

After the birth of her first child, she started volunteering as a reading tutor for Kishwaukee College. In 2001, she won the outstanding Literacy Volunteer of the Year Award from the college and started teaching G.E.D. classes for high school drop-outs. She enjoyed teaching her students that any dream can come true and empowering her students to find jobs, write stories, and get their G.E.D.s. Currently, Sarah is finishing her Master's thesis at Northern Illinois University in philosophy of education.  She is slated to graduate in December of 2008. 

In Sarah's free time, she and her husband Adam enjoy writing parent-spoof songs, guitar songs, and piano pieces. They both have spent many Sunday mornings singing for church and have shared their music with the community. Also, Sarah has experience presenting workshops for school districts and clients. After her kids go to bed, Sarah enjoy writing screenplays, poetry, and articles for newspapers.

Currently she is fitness columnist for the Weekly Journals. She also does freelance magazine writing for various magazines. She published her first book, Mermaids in the Sand, a family poetry album and memoir in 2005. Sarah is currently working on a fictional novel, which started as a screenplay, with her two screenwriting partners Andrea Bauer and Cori Crouch.  Sarah is devoting all of her free time to finishing the novel and her freelance magazine writing.