Who Is Freda Salatino?

If you don't know me personally, you're probably here because you're taking something through the UC Berkeley Extension program: either Principles of Information Architecture or Careers in Technical Communication. And you've already seen my official UC Berkeley Extension bio.
Actually, I prefer the following, which originated as a silly blurb I wrote at Oracle:
 

Freda Salatino was born in the last car of the famous Cyclone rollercoaster, in Brooklyn NY's Coney Island Amusement Park. This probably explains why she enjoys her daily 80+ mph commute to work over the bucolic but treacherous Santa Cruz mountains. 

A resident of California since 1979, Freda still has not learned how to properly pronounce "coffee," "awesome," or "dude." However, after extensive tutoring by her daughters Beryl and Simone, she now knows how to make a simple declarative sentence sound like a question.


How to pronounce my first name:

Short "e." Just like "Fred," with an "uh" at the end. Frehd-uh.


(c) Freda Salatino, 1999-2007