I was born in Iowa in '51 to travel through Central America and Southwest USA with my father, a contract BS level geologist who freelanced.  I attended the University of Texas in '72, lived in Peru 1973 & '74 & returned to Iowa State University to complete a degree in English in 1977. I've worked as a field hand interpreter with Mexican laborers, a Social Work Coordinator, an Interpreter in the Closed Psychiatric Unit for Criminally insane Cuban Refugees for The Cuban Haitian Task Force, a Research Assistant at The University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and now, a Bilingual Contract Family Therapist for Hispanic families. I reside in Olympia, Washington.  My most prideful accomplishment are my three functional and intelligent grown children and their families.