People who get me know this... My family comes first, but my definition of "family" isn't very traditional - shared DNA is optional !

My career path... Photographer/stay-at-home mom/grad student !

My spirituality... Unitarian Universalist/Panentheist Omnidiest !

My relationship status... Married !

My relationship saga... Married my college sweetheart in 1999, STILL trying to train him to pick up his socks. !

My political leanings... far left !

My political views... So you can face impeachment for a blow job but not for war profiteering and actual violations of the constitution? Good to know. !

A great song... "Gold Dust" by Tori Amos !

A great movie... Sliding Doors !

A great book... Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling !

A great company... gdiapers.com !

Delicious food... General Tso's Chicken from the scary fast Chinese take-out restaurant around the corner !

Terrible food... stinky fish !

A great person... Al Gore !

An awful person... George W. Bush !

Proudest thing I ever did... Gave birth unmedicated (three times, second and third times at home) !

Best time I ever had... My honeymoon !

Worst time I ever had... 3 car accidents (none my fault) in 18 months around when I graduated college and just before my wedding !

What Ive been up to lately... wondering if anyone has the recipe to make time between graduate school, three kids, a fairly healthy marriage, writing a novel, being involved in several social groups - all while having dramatically limited stamina due to physical disability. !

What drives me crazy... People who pretend to be tidy but whose every drawer/cabinet is in total disarray. !

What makes me glad to be alive... Observing signs that my offspring might just grow up to be non-psychopaths. !

I believe this... We make our own heaven and hell by our ongoing responses to the life we're dealt. !

My ethnicity as others define it... Caucasian, European, European-American !

My ethnicity as I define it... mutt. !

Gender... Female !