I am a born traveler. My very first photo, snapped at the hospital shortly after my birth, became my first passport photo. I boarded my first international flight shortly thereafter, and I have been traveling ever since. To date, I have visited 4 continents, 24 countries outside of the USA, and 31 states plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. My very patient husband jokes that I always start planning the next trip on the flight home (sometimes I actually start before that!). I think the planning is half the fun. Some of my favorite travel memories include family trips with my daughter and husband to Aspen, our honeymoon in Rome, Christmas with my parents in London, our little family's favorite beach trip to Puerto Rico, and my first solo adventure to Big Sky, Montana. I am also an avid reader, reading more than 100 books every year and currently working my way through the Boxall 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list. I come by my love of books naturally. I was raised by a librar
Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month by expanding your reading list this month to include Hispanic writers representing a variety of countries. Following is my suggested reading list: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis is the story of a young woman who leaves Italy in the early 1910s for a new husband and a new home in Argentina . When she arrives in Buenos Aires after a long journey, she learns her husband has been killed, and she is instantly a woman alone in a new country with no financial resources. She is soon moved by the music of her new home and the tango in particular. This is a novel about finding your passion and fighting the odds to pursue that passion. I rated this four stars on Goodreads. Find it here: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis | Goodreads . The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende is a family saga and a love story spanning decades and generations set against the backdrop of post-colonial political struggles in Chile . This is one of the