• My Family - My folks are both dead now but after my father died in 1999, I shared a special relationship with my Mom for the last six years of her life.  She was a constant topic in this journal and still adds fodder now and again.

• My Brother - My brother is 4 years younger than I am and lives in Georgetown, Tx..  He's married to wife #3 whom we all call Trey.  (Wife #1 signs her email Uno.)  He's a good egg.

• My Sister - My sister is 18 months younger than I am.  She usually lives with her husband and three daughters on Lopez Island in Puget Sound.  She and I have never been close and now rarely speak - more from nothing to say than real animosity but I guess there's a fair amount of that, too.

• Sherry and Lee - They are my friends who live in my condo building.  We swap cat sitting duties.

• Ann is my neighbor down the hall - she shares my love of the Mariners.  I leave my front door open and she drops in to dish every once in a while.  Great fun.

• I work for a small company that does a bunch of different stuff.  One thing they do is build and maintain websites for Microsoft.  I'm a web producer and work on those websites.  I work out of my living room and love it.

• I was born in Brooklyn, NY.

• We moved to New Jersey and then Iowa and then Kansas City where I started 1st grade.

• We moved to North Carolina where I spent most of my growing up.

• I went to a fancy finishing school instead of high school.

• When I was in college my parents lived in mid-town Manhattan, NYC - a great place to spend vacations!

• I lived in Wheeling, WV and the Aiken, SC when I was a newspaper reporter.

• I lived in Greenwood, SC when I worked for IBM the first time.

• I lived in Southern Pines, NC and worked for myself making clothes for people and finishing their needlework projects.

• I lived in Charlotte, NC and worked as the marketing manager for a non-profit performing arts theater and then I went back to work for IBM.

• I lived in White Plains, NY and in Stamford, CT.

• I lived in Rochester, MN.  I moved to Morgan Hill, CA and then to Seattle, WA.

• I left IBM and worked for myself building web pages back when IE wasn't born yet and Netscape had just released version 2. 

• I worked for Microsoft until the dot coms exploded and a recruiter talked me into working for one.  Worked there until it went under and then went to another one that did not go under but did lay me off. I've worked as a vendor on Microsoft websites since then.

• I was married once. When I was 30. For a total of 4 years, the first 6 months of which didn't suck too badly.  He was - actually is - 21 years older than I am and had 5 kids and one son-in-law when we got married.  I was wife #2 out of 3 or 4 for him.  He was it for me.  I'm done.

• I had my tubes tied the minute I could legally (in North Carolina anyway) do so.

And, that's probably more than you ever wanted to know.