Ariel is a former Latin teacher and author of a number of books on her classroom research with twice exceptional kids (gifted requiring special services), foreign language education, and curriculum for the gifted in several subject areas. She is a nerd to the tune of everything, who still wishes she could have quadruple-majored in college (linguistics, theatre, psychology, AND Latin). Her usual obsessions are film and theatre, the classical world, how it unraveled, and the threads that still reach through time.