3rd Generation Native CA Girl -- moved to Vermont, May 2001. By profession - English professor. By soul - artist and writer. Married to my best friend, with another best friend as my son. One delightfully bright granddaughter and a slew of family still in CA. Before I could even vote, I marched, sat-in, wrote letters, and attended vigils: to end war. My first job was teaching reading in a juvenile prison for boys in Los Angeles. I consider myself a proud liberal feminist with a story.