My story is a classic case of "single girl with rock star lifestyle meets boy, becomes suburbanite." After over a decade of sucking the marrow out of an Austin, Texas citizenship, I have moved to the flat and soulless suburbs of Dallas, into a little pink house and a shiny new family. I have a woefully expensive stationery habit, a yen for progressive politics, and a Kitchen-Aid Artisan mixer; the suburbs might not be ready for me. When I started in April 2001, this site was a full-on, real live web journal, and then it devolved into a blog because I'm ultra-lazy. (I started with the pseudonym because I worked in a so-called "sensitive environment," where Internet publishing would get one fired in a heartbeat... how deliciously ironic. Then I kept the pseudonym because I didn't want a digital trail of my weekend exploits and ranting hippie opinions tied to the name with which I applied for jobs. Now, with the shiny new family in the picture, it's just best.) These days I barely have time for even a blog, so the site is "in transition." I love to make things and do things, and opine on things, and tell other people how to make and do things and what to think. You can see for yourself at my Make & Do page. People ask a lot about the rotating phrases on my home page. It's a very simple trick: just a random image generator script. The image is just the text on a white background, and when creating new ones, I make sure the only thing I change is the brown text. Feel free to email me -- I love to get email. But right now, I'm terribly slow to read them, and even slower to reply. I apologize in advance. Thanks for stopping by. I know that there are one trillion websites out there to choose from, so I appreciate your visiting mine.