Today’s assignment: write and publish a “who I am and why I’m here” post.

Who am I and why am I here?

Sometimes I have no idea. On both counts.

Very introductorily, I’m married with three kids (9, 10, and 17). I’m an unnatural redhead, was a teacher for ten years; I’m in treatment for depression, recently converted to Catholicism and currently my favorite movie is Guardians of the Galaxy, TV is Supernatural, music is alternative, either twenty+ years or twenty minutes old.

I’ve always written. I have notebooks and notebooks, scrap papers filled with names and places, quotations and references.

When I became a parent, I started writing down things that worked for me as a parent and put my focus there until I began to include travel hints and keeping anecdotes from my travels.

When I joined the online community in 2008, it was through fan fiction. What I discovered from then to now is that I’ve been writing fan fiction, even if only in my head since I was a kid. Star Trek, The White Shadow, BJ and the Bear, Lou Grant; Lou Grant was probably my favorite – writing, journalism, Woodward and Bernstein. It was everything I wanted, including a redheaded feminist.

After fan fiction, I began to write more personal stories, incorporating my educational background and parenting skills plus I found I was really interested in writing about travel and more recently religion and spirituality and my depression.

Although I keep some aspects of my life and family private, I keep my blog public because I feel like some of my posts help people. I like sharing my experiences for that reason and to show some that they are not alone in their depression, their anxiety, or their contemplation of who they are or where they’re going.

I would like to make money writing, and this is a good way to try out different styles, different themes, and see what interests people and what doesn’t plus the feedback is invaluable and something that I can’t find anywhere else.

The online community that I’ve found is that – community; a family in its own special way with the best support network I’ve ever come across.
As far as writing topics, that’s ever evolving, but for the present I seem to be interested in and enjoy writing about: depression and anxiety, faith and my spiritual path, parenting and education, LGBT+ with a centering my attention on youth and trans issues, travel, and whatever else catches my fancy or crosses my bloggy path.