Marian Hansen, Jeanne Iversen and I got into the usual teen-age antics: We had slumber parties, flirted with boys, raised our hemlines, suntanned at Juanita Beach, tried temp hair colors, ate BLTs at Woolworth's...

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Freelance non-fiction articles. "Portraiture by Judith." For several years licensed for this & jewelry design.

Evening ESL instruction, (Huntsville, Alabama, then California. At Ventura County Office of Education, edited and illustrated teacher training manuals for other California counties.

Currently writing family histories, designing jewelry, and making photo cards.

Bothell Kindergarten (Mrs. Burns' class), Bothell Elementary School,
W.A. Anderson Jr. High School, Bothell High.

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Family

Dr. Javor's enthusiasm for teaching motivated me to love languages. He kindly took me once to a Seattle city-wide Spanish banquet. In my first year at UW, I took my Spanish prof from Chile to my sorority's "Bring your professor" dinner, and he didn't speak English all night. He gave me quitu a workout, and only later did I figure out his "no English" was total pretense. He had conducted his UW class only in Spanish. What a fun year!

Mr. Green: I appreciated and needed his extra driving lessons.

Miss Eylar: Wish I'd taken her Creative Writing. It surprised me that she used my poem in the school magazine, since I'd written it in a few minutes before falling asleep the night before.

I valued Mrs. Dodge who stretched our thinking in her English class.

Behind the scenes
Add Your Answer Here lacking self-confidence

Thespians, Spanish Club

Until Marian Hansen moved across the street from me, I'd had no girl friends within a mile from my house. I spent summer days playing with a nice little neighbor boy three years younger. Meeting Marian felt like moving into the city from the Outback. What? We should shorten our hemlines before school? Hair styles? Write to movie stars for their autographs? Sit in Bothell's St. Vincent de Paul shop to read the young adult novels for nothing?

My long-widowed mom had to work as a seamstress in Seattle all the time to support us. Marian's mom, a homemaker, drove us to swim at Juanita Beach, playd cards with us in their backyard, took us weekly to the Bothell library, let us mix up pudding snacks and read books while lying on blankets in their plum orchard. We sat on the floor in her home's closets and told stories and played word games. Her younger brother played pingpong against me in their basement. My life and good times began that summer before sixth grade. Marian, her sister Suzi, and family embraced me, and life was great.

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UW, UAH, UCSB. BA in English/German; teaching certificate, TESOL grad studies.

More fun than the above were the fine art photography classes taught by Bill Hendricks (1990s) at Ventura College. Our guest bathroom became a darkroom. Guests were no longer so welcome because it required three days to re-cover the reflective foil walls with black plastic after guests had left.

Travel--mode of transportation & where to? by plane--anywhere
Other--Please explain Using the languages I've learned. They have let me meet more people and have fun.

No pets lately

1963

Mid-1960: German neighbors lived all around us in Huntsville, and our son had only German children to play with. His first full sentence was in German. Our new friends immersed us in their culture and we ate it up (pun intended).

1970s: My husband, son and I enjoyed exploring caves in Madison County, Alabama. (There are over 2000 "wild" or unexplored ones.) Underground lakes, rushing streams...We didn't take all the precautions we should have and are lucky nothing serious happened.
Europe, Central America and China.

1980s: Tried romance novel writing. Our group met weekly, and we never stopped laughing.

1990s: Placed first in b/w photo competitions; exhibited in county galleries/institutions.

Huntsville, Alabama

WA, OR, CA, AZ, NV, FL, AL, UT,...HI

Canada, England, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Mexico, China, Guatemala

Gardening, German, Chinese conversation studies, ethnic recipes, jewelry-making...

On BBC Radio-i4 Podcasts February 2016 with a British penpal (from Mrs. Price's 7th grade pen pal exercise). This was fun and originated because we've corresponded--and visited--for over 50 years. The podcast celebrated the 500th year of the English Post. Ours was broadcast February 20, one day before heard in England.

Non-fiction articles. Never sent out the novel. The fun was worth every word, however.