What is your hometown?

Tough question: LA, Big Sur, CA and Eugene, OR

Which languages do you speak?

In the order I learned them English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Russian

What natural talent do you wish you had?

To be able to sing like Aretha

Where would you go for your dream vacation?

A villa in the tropics or the Mediterranean

Anything else you want to share with the world?

I spent about 6 years living on and off in Europe (UK, France, Italy and Germany). My last time living abroad was Berlin from 1993-1995 where I worked for the government agency that privatized the former GDR (Die Treuhandanstalt). It was an unforgettable and fascinating.