Linda’s interest in literacy was kindled as she studied for her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Elementary Bilingual Education at Boston University, culminating in a master’s thesis on teaching language through storytelling. She earned her doctorate in Literacy and Language Arts at the University of South Florida and engaged in literacy education through her work as a teacher educator of foreign languages and English as a second language; her research on language acquisition, reading, and giftedness; and her workshops for teachers on bilingualism, biliteracy and dual language education. The literacy work which made her rethink everything she knew and believed, however, came with the births of her children Abby and Zach over 20 years ago, and that rethinking continues today