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Tina Martin, author of Everything I Should Have Learned I Could Have Learned in Tonga and Letters from Algeria and the Day Everything Changed, taught at City College of San Francisco for thirty-two years after teaching and training teachers on five continents—Oceania, Europe, Africa, North America, and Asia. Although her most eventful decade was the 1970s, when she lived in Tonga, Spain, and Algeria, got her MA in TESOL, got married and had a baby, she did some major sleuthing in the early 1980s with her sister Dana when on a quest for their mother’s “origin story.” Her favorite pastimes are walking all over San Francisco, making photo montages of what she sees, celebrating friends and family, Zooming, following Friends of Tonga, writing letters (personal and political), apologizing for past, present, and future transgressions, and reading and discussing books including the 130+ she and her son Jonathan have read for the JoMa Book Club they founded in 2007.