Tippens, Sonette

Sonette Chanson Tippens has combined careers. She started her professional career at age eleven as a dancer in stage shows, and toured Canada and the Midwest with well-known productions. To this she added being a circus aerialist, high school art and Spanish teacher, inspirational speaker, published newspaper and magazine writer, and now adds author of books as she recounts her own experiences of Mexican life from inside "A Great House" in a Mexican Colonial town.