Growing up, I was fortunate that my family lived in some interesting places.  The first decade of my life placed our family briefly in Tulsa, Oklahoma (where I was born) and in Suriname - or Dutch Guiana, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Jamaica and Washington state. They tell me that in a Chinese restaurant in Pittsburgh I excitedly ordered “pasghetti,” and my mother was quite certain that when I began studying foreign languages in middle school it was simply because I wanted to be able to talk with ... View Post