Personal

An East Coast woman, I'm looking for the best way to balance growing up and staying young. It occurs to me that if I can harness the best of both, I'll be on the right track. I'm further trying to sort out how to live a life filled with creativity, interesting people and places, free-spirited kindness, great stories, learning, music and patience. My attention span is about the size of your average potted plant and most of the time I can make that work for me. When I'm not so successful, those who love me and find me charming and worthy are - God bless 'em - incredibly patient with me.

I am an Aquarius. Remarkably, most of the descriptions of Aquarians fit me pretty comfortably. As do the description of the Myers Briggs ENFP.

Blogging is an absolute hoot. Regular online writing has been the most consistent outlet for my near-lifelong drive to get the words out.

I was only able to sit still long enough to get a bachelor's degree in English with minors in Art and Psychology. I'm not certain those should be capitalized and that annoys me enough to mention it. Tangentially, I'm on a quest to find the balance between caring too much and not quite giving a damn.

Professional

You might say my career is a bit "made up." I increasingly collaborate with new users of Squarespace to help design their websites, (a handful of older samples here - several new ones coming soon,) some design and layout, dabble in writing, plan events... and make jewelry with ceramic pendants that I design individually and never - so far - duplicate. Every now and then I also teach workshops to a group of senior citizens who want to learn to make their own beaded jewelry. Over the years this list has been filled with much ebb and flow. Compared to most, it's a rather untidy career I've fashioned for myself and I'm currently on a semi-active quest to see what I need to do to streamline things a bit. Perhaps it's time to reallocate some things to "hobbies" and bring others back out to the career forefront... I'm told that'll help with the focus issues. We'll see! In the meantime? All my projects thrill and delight me and I tend to think I'm a really lucky girl to have been able to try so many unique things. Much of the process will unfold before your eyes in my blog. Same as always.

A Little Extra

Writing an "About" page on a blog often feels like a futile activity. How can we tell others who we are in a page? Having recognized that, you're welcome to peek over at an old incarnation of this page in which I wrote a long list of tidbits about me: Melody 101.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you visit again!