User:HowiePoodle

I am a former high School Spanish, English and French teacher. I spent 1985-2007 in the Seattle area. My parents were both born in Poland and spent World War II in Siberia. I was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and grew up in New York, New York. I love literature, travel, and cats and dogs, especially poodles. I am the co-parent of one poodle and a Pomeranian dog. I have lived in France and Spain for one year each, in Paris and Madrid. I have traveled to many countries in Europe and also Israel and some of the Americas. Education, B.A., World Languages and Literatures Sarah Lawrence College (1984); M.A., English, University of Washington, 1987; M.A., Spanish Middlebury College, 2001.

Marital Status: My husband and I were married in a civil ceremony by a Justice of the Peace in Darien, Connecticut. . I have Parkinson's Disease.

My heroes in the Republican Party are: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (Presidents); Olympia Snowe, Margaret Chase Smith, Susan Collins, Daniel J. Evans, Mark Hatfield, Jacob Javits, Nelson Rockefeller, Joel Pritchard, Lisa Murkowski, William Weld, James Stafford, Susana Martínez, Thomas Kean, Clifford Case, Tom McCall, Brian Sandoval and Mark Kirk.

My favorite US Supreme Court Justices, living and deceased, are: John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Louis Dembitz Brandeis, William O. Douglas, Benjamin Cardozo, Earl Warren, William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

American classic writers I like include: Henry D. Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain,Thomas Paine,Patrick Henry,Thomas Jefferson,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Henry Adams, Isaac Bashevis Singer,David Leavitt, Alice Munro--okay, she's Canadian--,Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, John Guare, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, Alice Walker, Lorraine Hansberry, John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Richard Wright, Raymond Carver, Theodore Roethke, Barbara Kingsolver,Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, David Guterson, Michael Chabon,Rudolfo Anaya, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch, Ken Kesey, and Ralph Ellison.

American authors I think are really talented but hateful human beings: Brett Easton Ellis and Charles Bukowski.

My favorite American cities and towns are: Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, Florence, OR, Bainbridge Island, WA, Friday Harbor, WA Boston, MA, Quincy, MA, Middlebury, VT, Stowe, VT, Ashland, OR, San Francisco, CA, Ojai, CA, Santa Barbara, CA, San Diego, CA, Tucson, AZ, Santa Fe, NM, Boulder, CO, Missoula, MT, Olympia, WA, Newport, RI, Scarborough, ME, New York, NY, Austin, TX, New Orleans, LA, Mobile, AL, Saint Augustine, FL, Key West, FL, Charleston, SC, Ashville, NC, Charlotte, NC, Chapel Hill, NC, Pittsburgh, PA, Ann Arbor, MI, Madison, WI, Anacortes, WA, Rapid City, SD, Bend, OR, Cle Elum, WA, Ocean Shores, WA, Annapolis, MD, Minneapolis, MN, Saint Paul, MN, Savannah, GA, Burlington, VT, Montpelier, VT, Portland, ME, San Antonio, TX, Poulsbo, WA, Miami Beach, FL, Hot Springs, AR, Steamboat Springs, CO, Jackson Hole, WY, Cody, WY, and Lexington, KY. I have been to every state except Hawaii.

States I have no use for, except perhaps as the nations' toxic waste depots: Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

Ojo: que no me llames ni norteamericano ni estadounidense. Soy AMERICANO. Ningún otro país del hemisferio contiene la palabra "América" dentro de su nombre oficial. Hay, por ejemplo, "Los Estados Unidos de México" y ciudadanos de Costa Rica y del Canadá caben también dentro de la categoría de "norteamericano". No me molestes con tonterías.

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