I recently "retired" (again) after a year+ working for the Journey Language Center where I thoroughly enjoyed teaching English to adults. I now have private students and am looking to find more. I am especially interested in working with adults who want to refine their English language skills, perhaps in listening (adverbial phrases and contractions), speaking (pronunciation and/or expressions) or in reading (vocabulary and comprehension) and writing (grammar and registries). I have been tutoring for the past 5 years any number of upper-elementary-aged students in reading comprehension and writing. I recently published a novel, Called Home, a novel from the South Dakota prairie. It is available on amazon. I am at work on the sequel. I continue to work as an executive director with Fort Collins Read Aloud, a nonprofit organization with a mission to educate, encourage, and empower parents to be the best and most important teachers for their young children. In one of my roles with the FCRA, I present to parent groups in the Fort Collins area about the importance of language development and reading aloud to babies and children.The backstory: I retired in 2014 from the Boulder Valley School District where I taught Special Education, English Language Development, and Reading. I spent twenty years working with middle and high school students from diverse backgrounds to help them meet the challenges of academic reading and writing as well as working with classroom teachers to help them make their academic content more accessible for all the students in their classrooms.