At this moment in time, I’m…a writer who's plied many trades (bookseller, publishing assistant, teacher, and award-winning school librarian among them) and is wending a way through the seven ages whilst geeking out over Lord of the Rings, Shakespeare, religious artifacts and medieval marginalia, Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, the history of witches, the art of quilting, random French chateaus, and sundry other stuff.  I’m an admirer of Éowyn and would place myself somewhere in the middle of the shieldmaiden-healer spectrum.  I am inimitable; I am an original. (Tip of the hat to Lin-Manuel Miranda.)  I’m a graduate of Purchase College (B.A., English), NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development (M.A., Childhood Education), and the Longwood University School Librarianship program, and I am an avid reader and lifelong learner (and, apparently, Mistress of the Obvious as well).  Any rumors regarding me having a crush on Stephen Colbert or Daveed Diggs (or perchance some others) are completely…irrefutable.  That being acknowledged, I was the loyal consort of an unsung prince of Poland (may he requiescat in pace), and I am the very proud mother of a tornadic, talented, and talkative wunderkind girl and a happyhopper jollyjumper bouncyboy who has a memory like an elephant, and also a sage feline and a bossy but cute Corgi.

One thing I am NOT:  a "laurel-rester."  There is always something more to do, to learn, and to make better.