Profession: Retired as of June 2015. Formerly: Elementary level bilingual/ESL teacher, bilingual assistant

Languages I speak, read and write:  English, Spanish, and Portuguese

Interests: Travel, writing, reading, photography, scrapbooking, politics

Favorite TV Shows: Jane the Virgin, Call the Midwife, Outlander, Rachel Maddow show, All In with Chris Hayes, Masterpiece Classic

Most recent movie I’ve seen in a movie theatre: The Zookeeper’s Wife

Most recent trip: Domestic:  Minnesota, North and South Dakota, May 2017
International: Amsterdam & Tanzania, Jan.-Feb. 2018

Country I have been to most often:  Brazil (1971, 1978-79, 1980-81, 1988, 2003, 2016)

Good books I’ve read recently:
Fiction:
A  Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
City of Thieves – David Benioff
Non-Fiction:
The Second Amendment: A Biography by Michael Waldman
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
Janesville, An American Story by Amy Goldstein
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Books I’m currently reading:
The Second Amendment: A Biography – Michael Waldman (NF)
Book series I always read:
Ladies #1 Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Sunday Philosophy Club: Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries by Alexander McCall Smith
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling