Hi!  It's hard to believe, but I've been teaching in the ABE/GED program since 1990.  What I like best about the work we do together is participating in the journey you are making to learn and improve your lives.  It's so great to share in that joy you experience when you reach a goal you've set for yourself.  I love to read and I love the freedom that reading gives me to learn about all that interests me, so it's natural that I would want to share that. Writing is one of the ways we communicate and facilitating your voices to be heard in writing is exciting for me.  Lastly, it is through teaching math that I've come to appreciate it's amazing qualities of patterns and reliability.  The fact that we can't live well without math is also motivating.  So that's me, the teacher.

A little history about me reveals the story of America, a place of refuge and immigration.  I was born in New York soon after my parents arrived in New York.  They survived World War II and started life over in this country. They quickly became citizens and loved this country and all its promise. We moved to Los Angeles, California when I was 8 and that's where after a life of many summers at the beach  that I reveled in, I went to UCLA to become a teacher.

When I married, I left the school I taught at, lived in Tucson, Arizona, had a baby girl, moved to Minnesota, had a baby boy and returned to teaching when they went to school also.  My family gives me a delightful and interesting launching pad to all that I do and learn in this life.

When I landed at the airport in Minneapolis/St. Paul this last summer on a beautiful day, I realized how much I've grown to love this place.  It has so much that I desire for my life - nature, culture, and good people.  I look forward to seeing my continuing students and to meeting all of you new learners who will join our program this year and together move forward.

Bye for now.