For Miguel Perez, being bilingual is like having a superpower.
“I like to remind my students that it’s a gift being able to read, write and speak in two languages,” says Perez, a fifth-grade teacher at the Language Academy of Sacramento, a public charter school near Stockton Boulevard and Broadway that offers bilingual education in English and Spanish.
Christine Lan Higgs is a policy analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab with a thriving photography business based in Vacaville.
Walking up the garden path to the Curtis Park home of Julie and Stan Perez, one is instantly charmed by the Americana cottage feel of the property, complete with a beautiful U.S. flag waving in the breeze.
The couple purchased the home five years ago when family life made an unexpected turn. After raising two sons in a 3,500-square-foot home in El Dorado Hills, they moved to Pasadena. Stan—a retired CHP officer—became head of security for the Norton Simon Museum. The couple also established a business selling vintage farmhouse goods.
“Our sons remained in Sacramento, and we promised if they ever had grandchildren, we’d move back to help take care of them,” Julie says. Until that happened, they planned to buy an actual country farmhouse.
When Stan retired and their first grandchild was born in 2017, the couple started house shopping in Sacramento.
Primarily a palette knife painter, Egan loves the challenge of developing contrasting images in rapidly changing light.
