Pitipua
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher, Artist |
| Location | San Francisco, CA, United States |
| Introduction | Elementary school teacher, intermittent artist, former activist, still a dreamer. Half of my life thinking I'm a screw-up. This next half catching up to the fact is not quite so. Life is very, very good if you know where to look, despite the reality that for the most part, this world sucks. |
| Interests | Education, Defeating NCLB, Fine Arts (drawing, painting, digital arts) and Graphic arts (printmaking), applied arts (paper cutting, polymer clay, papier maché, mosaics, collage, textiles, etc), politics, his- (and her-)story, writing, education, cats, creativity, women and children's issues, psychology and mental health, Buddhism, communications, civil rights, friendship, music (esp. Afro Caribbean but really, anything with a living soul), Folk and Outsider arts, homemaking, inner growth, travel, diversity, the environment, life in general. |
| Favorite Movies | Dead Man Walking, La Strada, El Norte, The Pianist, The Rat Race, The last 3 Harry Potter movies (YES i said it!), Sarafina, The Namesake, The Piano, Monty Python, Hot Fuzz, Farenheit 911, Sicko, Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Roman Holiday, Fargo, Elizabeth, The Return of the King, Galaxy Quest, O Brother Where art Thou?, Don Juan de Marco, Ed Wood, Pan's Labirinth, The Godfather 1 and 2, Perico Ripiao, Too many to mention and I'm sure I missed a lot. |
| Favorite Music | Silvio Rodríguez, Cafe Tacvba, Los Van Van, anything by Putumayo, Joan Manuel Serrat, Maria Callas, Misa Criolla, Inti illimani, India.Arie, Mercedes Sosa, Caridad Bravo, Pablo Milanés, Haciendo Punto, Intifada (the PR one), Muse, XTC, The Beatles, George Harrison, John Lennon, Public Enemy, World folk music, Klezmatics, Bluegrass and genuine folk, old Jazz, old blues, old Trio music, Bomba y Plena, old Salsa, Eddie Palmieri, Marvin Santiago, Maelo, Rubén Blades, old Willie Colón, Diams, Vico C, some bands my son has introduced me to but can't remember, The Police, Too many to mention and I'm sure I missed a lot. |
| Favorite Books | El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera (anything by García Márquez, really), Cuando era Puertorriqeña by Esmeralda Santiago, Paula and La Casa de Los Espíritus by Isabel Allende, The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's wife by Amy Tan, The Fun Home (anything by by Allison Bechdel), Anything by Quino, Mafalda, Buenos Días Tío Sergio by Magali García Ramis, poet Miguel Hernández, the Harry Potter series; children's authors Patricia Polacco, Dav Pilkey, Gary Soto, Doreen Cronin, Helen Lester, As usual, too many to fit here. |