An Introduction

It occurs to me that I've yet to properly introduce myself, despite the fact that this blog has been up and running since July. Well, there's no time like the present, right? That adage doesn't normally slip so easily from my tongue. I'm ECR: wife, mother, writer and supreme procrastinator.

College educated in the liberal arts, I work at home as a freelance writer. I've been doing so since my daughter was born in July of 2005. I feel more secure in my own personal and professional identity now that I am a wife and mother than I ever did when it was just me. Free from the distractions of a 40-hour work week outside the home, I’ve been able to concentrate on my family, my writing, and myself.

Parenthood hasn’t come easy to my husband and I, not in terms of how we relate to our daughter or how we relate to each other, but it has made us a family. We may not know always how to communicate, but we sure love to talk. We are rabid advocates of free speech, and it is evident in how we raise our daughter. She is currently exercising said right with much passion in the form of "dad," “look,” “dog,” “thank you,” “hat,” and “gak.”

I blog in search of the discipline necessary to the write the novels I've known I would write since I was five years old. I blog in search of the words. I didn't know I was blogging for the community I would find here, but it turns out that's part of it, too. It's a community compelling me to write every day this month as part of NaBloPoMo.

So, for the rest of you bloggers out there who are committing your words to computer screens all over the world for 30 straight days, tell me this: who are you? With a month's worth of whitespace to fill, I hope you'll have no excuse to dismiss this burning question.