Pay No Attention to that (Wo)man Behind the Curtain (aka–About Me)

A Few Things about LT, an American in Shanghai

Current Location: Xuhui District (in the area formerly known as the French Concession), Shanghai, China

Previous Locations: Hong Kong; beautiful Seattle, Washington; Walla Walla-the place so nice they named it twice-Washington; Portland, Oregon; Boulder, Colorado

Previous Job: high school English teacher and girls’ basketball coach

Current Job: mom, cook and family biographer

Favorite Books: everything by Jane Austen, The Sparrow, Harry Potter, Three Cups of Tea, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, David Copperfield, Seabiscuit (because I want to write something just like it someday), The Best of Roald Dahl, The End of the Affair, Anna Karenina, Rebecca, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind

I Never Miss a Chance to: take a nap or have a snack

Fondest Memory (and this category excludes the birth of my son and my wedding day): first concert at the Gorge Amphitheater—Dave Matthews Band with my sister

Most Dreaded Dream: the one where you’re back in school but you can’t quite remember what classes you’ve registered for or where the classrooms are and it’s already the end of the term

My Teams (in order of whom I’d most likely kill for if it meant a championship): Washington Huskies—football, Seahawks and Mariners (tied), Gonzaga Bulldogs—basketball, Sonics, Jesuit High School anything (but I wouldn’t have to kill for that one, would I?