A Letter from Pat - January 2004

Dear Girls and Boys,

Thanks for visiting my web site. I wish I could talk to each of you about what you like to read. When I visit schools, I tell you that I read every night. Do you?

I also tell you that I'm a writer because I'm a reader, and I tell you how lucky I feel to be bilingual. When I write I can use words in English or Spanish. I can write cat or gato.

2001 was a very exciting year for our family. Cissy, my youngest daughter, became Dr. Cissy, a veterinarian. I know many of you want to become vets too. Don't you? Do you take good care of your pets? Cissy did. She took very good care of our cats and now she cures cats all day long since she works at an all feline clinic. At her home, she has two BIG cats and a Chihuahua.

Cissy reads every night too just like she did when she was little. She had to read many thick books to become a vet so she was glad she had the reading habit.

Cissy and her sister Libby who's a lawyer and her brother Bill who's a textbook editor were all born in El Paso, Texas, where I was born. Now I spend part of the year in Santa Fe, New Mexico and part in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area where my husband teaches archaeology.

We're a family that likes to laugh together, eat together, and to talk about books. What does your family like to do?

Keep reading! Your friend, Pat Mora