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I am currently a Biology teacher at George Bush High School near Houston, TX.  I majored in Biology at the University of Houston, but I minored in English.  I have always enjoyed literature and I am surprised it took me this long to realize my dream job is to be a Librarian!

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This has been a crazy school year.  First there was the devastating hurricane that affected many of our students, faculty, and staff.  Then there was snow!  And most recently there was a lot of ice, so school was closed an additional two days after the MLK Holiday.  We had a Biology teacher on maternity leave and when she returned after the icy weather another Biology teacher resigned!  I am taking it one day at a time and crossing my fingers that we get all the students caught up and ready for the Biology End of Course STAAR exam in May.  So needless to say, I am a little crazy right now!

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I have three amazing children ages 9. 13. and 19.  My youngest daughter loves to draw and write comic book style stories, my middle daughter enjoys journaling and is in a writer's club, and my oldest is a sophomore at Texas A&M in Kingsville, TX where he received a Presidential Scholarship.  They make me very happy and I am blessed to be their mom.

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I have always enjoyed reading but my love deepened in high school when I discovered many fascinating and talented authors. Among them are Maya Angelou, Sandra Cisneros, Alice Walker, Pablo Neruda, Isabell Allende, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I write all about their influence in another Padlet titled My Reading Autobiography that I wrote for another course. As a mom, my favorite authors to  read to my children were Shel Silverstein, Doctor Seuss, Sandra Boynton, Marc Brown, and Laura Numeroff.

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I am recently divorced after twenty years of marriage (he is an attorney by profession but he wrote novels as a hobby - which is one reason I fell in love with him in the first place). I have found that the most therapeutic thing for me to do is escape to the beach with several good books.  I especially enjoy going to the beach on a cold day with a nice warm blanket.  It is something about the cold air and staying warm bundled up in a blanket as a I listen to the waves and get lost in a good book - it is very relaxing.  I enjoy spending afternoons in Galveston and Padre Island and hope to return again soon.

Image: My escape to Padre a few months after my divorce was final.