Tom Slakey
Tom Slakey has lived an adventurous life. He grew up in Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM, and attended the superb St. John's College Great Books program, reading the greatest written works of the Western world in all the disciplines from literary to scientific. He has worked as a computer programmer, technical writer, and teacher. He taught high school math in French in Mali, West Africa, where Timbuktu is, and English in Tokyo, Japan, living in each place for about three years, and in Mexico for...See more
Tom Slakey has lived an adventurous life. He grew up in Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM, and attended the superb St. John's College Great Books program, reading the greatest written works of the Western world in all the disciplines from literary to scientific. He has worked as a computer programmer, technical writer, and teacher. He taught high school math in French in Mali, West Africa, where Timbuktu is, and English in Tokyo, Japan, living in each place for about three years, and in Mexico for a year. He has traveled in 53 countries, and trekked to 18,700 feet high on the slopes of Mt. Everest in Nepal. He has dabbled in 13 languages, gaining an FSI rating of 4 (educated non-native speaker) in French and 3 (the level needed to work at an embassy desk) in Spanish, Bambara, and Fulani. See less