About the Author

Annita Clark Weaver’s childhood in a bi-cultural family instilled in her a desire to experience for herself the country of her father’s and grandmother’s birth. As a young woman, she lived and worked in Brazil for a year and a half, becoming fluent in Portuguese, and learning first hand about Brazilian culture. She has made eight trips to Brazil, twice making her home there, and traveling in 18 of Brazil’s 26 states. In her grandmother’s town, Caldas, Minas Gerais, she interviewed three old women, and conducted research in civic records.

Annita Clark-Weaver, 2014

She holds an AB degree from Ohio University, with a major in Romance Languages and a Master’s in Library Science from the University of California at Berkeley. She has worked as a teacher, a school librarian, a market research investigator, and proprietor of a used book store.

In her 9^th decade, Annita Clark-Weaver is amazed at the beauty of nature, the diversity of life, the resilience of the human spirit, and the depth of life’s mysteries. She loves to swim, dance, listen to classical and Brazilian popular music, and make things that amuse and delight her. Most of all she enjoys celebrations with her extended family and sharing life’s joys and sorrows with intimate friends. She lives in Tucson, Arizona with her husband, and in Sebastopol, California, near her son and family.