In 1983, at 40 years old, I began my life as a middle-aged hummingbird, traveling the world and living in Israel, China, Taiwan, Macau, Bali, and Korea. I found my career niche as a teacher of English to non-native English speakers. Curiosity, intensity, and the journals I kept along the way were my constant traveling companions. My book, Memoirs of a Middle-aged Hummingbird, published in 2006 and winner of the 2008 First Place in Non-fiction awarded by the National League of American Pen Women, explains my nomadic life in detail. This website at www.zimatravels.com includes a travel blog with excerpts from the book. Although still in contact with my former students around the world, I am now a mostly settled senior hummingbird in southern California who is still wondering, periodically wandering, and writing.
Recently, I decided to transfer both of my previous blogs to my website, originally hosted at bootsnall and blogspot. All posts from my bootsnall blog are dated Oct. 19, 2009 and prior, posts after that date through the first post in February are transferred from my blogspot blog. From this point forward, all blog posts will be located here, phasing out the other two blog locations.