About Me
I've always had great difficulty when asked to define myself. It's not because there are no words that describe who I am - it's more the case that there are too MANY words. Perhaps I should be the poster child for adult ADD.
In any case, in terms of Wicca, I am a Second Circle member and Third Circle student of the Church of Universal Eclectic Wicca, Athames Edge Clan of the Coven of the Far Flung Net. All of that means not very much without context, as like any other "credentials," so I'll leave that part there. I've been a student of alternative religion since my Sunday School teacher told me to stop asking so many questions she couldn't answer. I was 7 years old then. I haven't looked back since.
I began the practice of Wicca in England in an eclectic coven of college students where I went to school. When I returned to the US I became a solitary practitioner, then lapsed into not doing much of anything besides the occasional reading until I decided to become more involved. A search revealed CUEW and CFFN, and since an online coven was perfect for my lifestyle, I applied and was accepted by AE. The rest, as they say, is history.
Of course I have other facets of self besides Wicca. I am the mother of a very interesting young woman named Morgan who turns 12 in October. I am the wife of a young man I met on a diving trip (he turns 53 in October). I have been inhabiting this particular body for 43 years now, and hope I get used to it sometime soon.
In my work life, I am an intellectual property and software licensing attorney, working for various clients when I can. I also do work as a civil libertarian, trying to balance intellectual property rights with speech and expression rights. In my opinion, the tables should be far more skewed in favor of speech and expression, but those with money and funding disagree with me. In my relatively spare, spare time, I teach Tae Kwon Do 4 nights a week, make and sell jewelry made of charged stones, teach scuba diving when possible, act as a flight instructor when I can, am an author, mentor, wannabe geek, macintosh enthusiast, web designer, and practitioner of anything else that looks like fun.
In a former life, I co-founded and ran the first software company to offer commercial Internet applications for the Macintosh (founded in 1988), flew around the world to ridiculous meeting to attempt to shape what became the nightmare of ICANN, have been quoted in various and sundry publications like Scientific American, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, various and sundry television shows like TechTv and MSNBC, and too many radio programs to mention concerning how the little guy is being trashed by big company and govermental power on the Internet (nobody cared), and semi-retired in 1995 after being told I was "unemployable."
I live in Great Falls, VA in a house shared with the aforementioned daughter and husband, three insane parrots, four crazy dogs, and two sickly cats.