Linda Dorton
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer/Instructor |
| Location | Mérida, Yucatán |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | Linda Wodarski is from a Polish area in Toledo, Ohio. After 3 years at Oberlin College, Ohio was too cold and that school too expensive. I drove to LA. I tried a number of careers after failing to find parking at UCLA to register to finish college. The most interesting: worked for a personal manager and his crazy celebrities! Later I worked in México DF, leading me to Caribbean cruise ships. I learned to scuba dive and thought I had died and gone to heaven. I signed off a ship to stay in Akumal, México, taught diving 5 years. I moved to Hawaii and met Jim Dorton. That serendipity became 22 years of love and adventure. We lived and worked on boats in the British Virgins, Cape Verde, Maui, Hawaii, sailed to Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, sailed from Australia to Bali, etc. Then Jim got sick. Living in Hawaii was no longer fun and easy…it was expensive and stressful. I depleted all of my energy and lost myself completely in caregiving my mother for 4 years and my husband for 3. Off to Bali for spiritual healing. In 2007 I came back to live in Mérida, Yucatán. I have 3 published articles, and focus on travel writing/personal experience. My best friend Pablo and I have opened a swim school. |
| Interests | Swimming, scuba diving, dancing, reading, writing, crafting, coloring, sailing, sports, American football, traveling, learning, visiting ruins, studying Mayan language and culture, music, walking on the beach, cats |
| Favorite Movies | Madagascar, Ice Age, Finding Nemo, Out of Africa, all Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman fims, foreign films. |
| Favorite Music | Reggae, Latin, Hawaiian, Jahwaiian, Balinese, Cuban, Brazilian, Polish, Rock, R&B, sea chanties, etc. |
| Favorite Books | Don't Stop the Carnival by John D. MacDonald, On Writing by Stephen King, The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, Tess of the D'Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy, La Plague by Albert Camus, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Writers' Market Guide... |
What's the most amount of sand you've ever had in your swimming trunks?
My fingers, chopsticks, straws, coconut spoons, and my tongue.