Barbara Becquiot:  

UPDATE May 15th, 2019 I left California in the fall of 1965, spent almost a year in Bavaria, then came back to Paris for ten days and spent ten years. Got my degree first in French Lit., then in English Lit. and became a tenured secondary teacher in English and French here in Burgundy in 1975. while living along the Loire River near the Sancerre (Sauvignon) vineyards. After returning to the US for the first time on a sabbatical leave in 1996, I passed the CBEST and other test qualifying me for a CA teaching credential and substituted for five years from 1996 to 2002 after which I returned to teaching here near the Chablis (Chardonnay) vineyards. Our son, who accompanied me in 1996, stayed in Santa Rosa and founded a family there so I have a twelve year granddaughter Sophia who is one third French, one third Filipina and one third American. Our daughter lives in the north of France where she shares her time between working as a Vet assistant in a clinic specialized in treating cancer and raising and training jumping hor...Expand for more