Beth Hoskinson:  

I have been fortunate enough to do a lot of traveling since high school. I was married right out of school, then divorced in my late twenties. Divorce can do strange things to a person and I decided that I wanted to live my life like a cheap romance novel and have some adventures, so I did. I lived in Tampa during that time and completed my B.F.A. in ceramic sculpture from University of Tampa. Since my former marriage did not produce any children like so many of my friends, I decided to have a little fun. I moved to the mountains of Asheville, NC for a short while and enjoyed hiking and camping, but then I moved back to Florida for a couple of years and taught school. I spent a summer in NYC with a good friend of mine and met someone and fell in love. I decided to pick up and move to New York City for a guy (typical). I got a job as a paralegal for a law firm down near Wall Street. Well, as the story goes, the guy and I didn't work out and I quickly tired of the law firm and applied for a teaching job in Egypt, never really expecting to get it, but the next thing I knew I was on a plane. I spent a school year in Cairo and learned a great deal about that part of the world. All I can say is it's beautiful and complicated. From there I made friends and ended up going to Malta to teach for nearly two years. I decided to go back to school to get my master's degree. I ended up in Paris to begin the program and was there for about eight months, but it was right around 9/11 and that event made things very difficult for Americans to be abroad, so I cam...Expand for more