Hi Travel Writers--


I'm excited to get to know about your and your past and future travels!  I'll start out by introducing myself and you guys should introduce yourselves on the blog too:

I love to learn languages and to travel and to combine the two when possible.  For example, last spring semester I took an Italian course and in the summer I spent two weeks in Sicily trying to speak Italian. Then I wrote a travel essay about how the course did and did not prepare me for the travel experience, which will be published this fall.  I have published a lot of travel essays about my experiences in Latin America.

 I've been a rhetoric professor and writing center director for 28+ years.  I've got a BA in Spanish, an MA in Linguistics-TESOL, and a PhD in English: Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy.

 In my free time, I like to swim and hang out with my granddaughters, 9 and 1 and a half.  The older one and I are currently reading the last Penderwicks book.