ABOUT LINDA

Linda should have been born in Texas, but the USAF decided she would be born in Arizona. She did eventually make her way to Texas, attending high school in San Antonio and then receiving B.A. degrees in English, Computer Science, and Mathematical Sciences from Rice University.

After a stint with IBM in Austin, Linda began pursuing her greatest passion – offspring. She and her husband (Bill) created three amazing human beings. These three amazing human beings then created Linda’s passion for teaching, and Linda and Bill decided to homeschool their offspring. Homeschooling led to teaching at the Austin Area Homeschool Cooperative which led, over time, to teaching here at ATA College Prep. Linda enjoys teaching mathematics, literature, grammar, theater, and history. She believes in the Oxford comma.

Although Linda has little innate athletic talent, she does enjoy lifting weights and punching bags with her little, red boxing gloves. Her offspring obviously inherited some recessive genes, and all became college varsity athletes – the girls both in crew and the boy in tennis (after some time here at ATA) – giving Linda some solid second-hand understanding of the athletic mind.

Linda also enjoys reading (my first love), cooking (and the corollary eating), and drama (both in and out of the theater). She is currently on the board of the Lakeway Players and directs a show about once a year.

Linda is not prone to philosophizing, believing that Coach Tommy has that sewn up, but if she did have a philosophy of teaching it would be:

1) The most valuable thing you can learn is how to teach yourself.

2) The most valuable thing you can teach is how to work.

Simple, but not easy.