Andiamo

Taught English as a Second Language at community college, and I was meeting with adult English learners as volunteer leader of conversation club at county library - until Covid-19 pandemic closed the libraries in March 2020. My early experiences were teaching business education subjects at high schools and comprehensive vocational rehabilitation center, and and more recently serving as a substitute teacher in elementary schools.

For a couple of years, I taught sewing and simple quilt making to residents in a homeless shelter, including children and teenagers. The sewing room was a quiet place where shattered women could begin to reorder their lives, gather their thoughts as they handled fabrics and designed their quilts, and experienced satisfaction with completing a project that warmed both spirit and body.

Enjoy reading, writing, sewing quilts, gardening, photography, international folk dancing, exploring country roads and making friends wherever I go. Collect international dolls, dictionaries, maps and , of course, postcards!

Reader of history, mystery, international writers, science fiction, biography, non-fiction, cookbooks.

Welcome postcards of all kinds. Like moonlit scenes, humorous, landscape, cityscape, representative of your country/home/history/people. Love to send maximum cards - and explain them to postal clerks.

"A merry heart does good like medicine."

U.S.A. Postcrossers! Join the campaign to request the U. S. Postal Service to issue a Postcrossing stamp! Add this information to your profile and write a letter to:
Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee
475 L'Enfant Plaza SW Room 3300
Washington, DC 20260-3501

July 9, 2021: This card popped up in a basket of my cards:
RU-2956929
It would have been sent in August 2014.

It has not been registered in my account, nor in 2 others I manage.
It has no message, address, or stamp. Was probably sent in an envelope with other cards. Maybe it was even among cards I bought at a thrift store!

It is a card from Omsk - subject: a guest house of K.K. Dikhovich on Pochovaya street, building 41. Printed in Omsk.
It was not listed as an expired card among lists posted - I examined the first 100 Postcrossers listed in Omsk.
I like a mystery and I feel challenged to find the sender of this card. Anyone want to help in the hunt? It cannot be registered in the system, but it would be fun to find it among a list of expired cards and e-mail the sender. Like finding the sender of a message in a bottle washed up from the sea!