About

I am a world known writer (I have a couple friends on vacation out of the country) who happened to have kids.

First, I am a redhead.  This is how I identify myself because since birth my nicknames have included the word “red” in them.  I have been teased about my hair; I have been complimented on my hair; I have been reprimanded for dying my hair.  I am like Joe in Little Women: It is my one true beauty.

A lot of ‘bloggers’ put their credentials on line, so here are mine:

I have been alive 38 years; therefore I think I can comment on life.

I’m not sure if anything else really gives any credence to my posts but here is some background:

I spent the first half of my life in Connecticut.  In high school, I was uprooted from my home and moved to Utah.  I have been trying to move back East ever since.  I’m starting to think it will be just as easy to change that goal to moving to the Far East.

I attended Brigham Young University and got a degree in English, realized I had no employable abilities and got an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.  The only full time job I could get was in Yemen so I went to the University of Iowa law school.

I was going to be a high-powered attorney in a major city while teaching English.  Then I married a dentist.  My husband balances being very lovable with being slightly neurotic.  Sometimes, or often,  I am the deciding factor on how that scale balances.  He is  conservative and very Republican.  In fact, he is so Republican you could say his blood runs red (when exposed to oxygen).

We lived in Queens for two years while my husband did a residency in Pediatric Dentistry and I really wanted to stay, but we realized we would have to give plasma daily in order to afford an apartment with a kitchen where you could stretch your arms out to their full length without hitting the refrigerator, stove, and dishwasher all at the same time.

We ended up in Helena, Montana and now we have three kids, 8, 5, and 3.  I have decided to not write more here to respect their privacy because I do not respect their privacy anywhere else on this website.

While in Helena, I became a member of the Montana bar, but my goal is to never actually practice law unless forced by gunpoint.  I have taught at a college and done some editing, but basically I am doing my best to let people know it is ok to live in suburbia while continually wondering how you got here.

That is me (or I).  Who are you?