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Stratford, Connecticut
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Social Studies Teacher
About
Life is like a bowl of extra creamy cherry vanilla ice cream, and I'm lactose intolerant...
Born in Connecticut, school, college, dropped out, crummy job, poverty wages, back to college, bachelors degree, married (34 years and counting), Peace Corps Thailand, EFL teacher (2 years); Indochinese Refugee Resettlement officer on the Thai border (2 years), then six months traveling all over Asia: Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma (pre-Myanmar), Japan, Nepal; then grad school (Ohio U.), two masters degrees, had a son, moved to San Francisco (Ah, San Francisco!), teacher, writer, published a book (The Balancing Act: A History of Modern Thailand), never made any money at it, big e