Introducing: New Blog Editor

Dear readers, my name is Patrick Weill, or Pat for short. I am delighted to have been accepted as a new blog editor and I am at your service for anything you may wish to publish here on our division’s blog. If you are not a native English speaker, that is more than ok; it would be a very welcome and valuable contribution if you were to send me your text, and I can help with English editing if you want and/or need that.

I am just barely settling down after a big trip to my home country and region (I am originally from northern California, Sacramento to be exact) for my first ATA conference. It was a wonderful experience for me and I enjoyed meeting many new people and especially being involved in the Science and Technology Division’s activities. After the conference, I traveled up the California coast about 60 miles, to a very small costal town named Bodega Bay. The northern California coast is thought of as too cold by many, but it is precisely this difference between the northern coast and the more well-known beaches of sunny southern California that has kept away the crowds and the problems associated therewith. This beautiful territory is still basically virgin beachfront land for hundreds of miles and the weather is not that bad. More or less it is the same as San Francisco weather. The water IS too cold for swimming, without a wetsuit anyway, and there are some good waves in this area if you are a surfer.

I translate from Spanish to English, mostly medical and scientific right now, and I also offer the reverse pair, through my contacts here in Mexico. I edit that work myself. I have been in Mexico for 11 years now and it looks like I am here to stay for the foreseeable future. As I alluded to above, I am here to help you and our division, so please contact me at pbw@weillandassociates.com if I can be of service to you in any way.

The northerly view from Bodega Head