Tom & Karen Brandon - Tampa, Florida, USA

   
Our Family Members:    Tom, Karen and Clara
Our Family Connection:  : Tom's paternal great-grandmother is Judith Maduro.
About Us: (Tom writes:) I've been living in Tampa, Florida since 1997, with my wife (of 12 years), Karen, and our nearly 8-year-old daughter, Clara. Prior to moving to Tampa, we lived for seven years in Binghamton, New York. Before that I lived for seven years in Madison, Wisconsin (grad school) and one year in Indianapolis (internship).
  Karen and I are both faculty members at the University of South Florida in Tampa (we're both clinical psychologists). Here is my university web page: http://www.cas.usf.edu/psychology/content/fac_brandonT.htm .
  My brother, Daniel, lives in Wisconsin with his wife, Aracely (he followed me there while I was in grad school). He has two boys, Daniel and Alexander. My sister, Linda Givens, lives in Bend, Oregon with her husband Dave and their two very cute daughters, Anne and Erica.
  My mother (Doris Bleuel) and father (Henry Brandon) are divorced but both live in Richmond, California.
  We like to travel, and our jobs allow us to do so quite a bit. In recent years, I have been in Helsinki, Finland; Estonia; Italy; and Quebec. We also travel and vacation throughout the United States.
  Our house is on a lake, and Clara greatly enjoys catching minnows and turtles with a net, and we enjoy kayaking around the lake. We also go canoeing on nearby rivers, where we float right by alligators, turtles, and a variety of herons, egrets, spoonbills, etc.
  Our home e-mail is tbrandon@tampabay.rr.com .
   
   
Blue Ridge Mountains, 2003 Clara celebrating Chanuka, 2003
(click to enlarge photos)

 

Date: 17 Feb 2004
Ref:  FLA2