Writer. Mother. Wife. A private person; a warm person; "a silly person -- greedy, barbarous and cruel" per T.E. Lawrence, but then he says that about everybody; a feminist; a fallen-away Lutheran; sometimes an atheist; sometimes a pantheist; (an all-or-nothing attitude re: deities seems to be the most reasonable approach); a left-leaning liberal; una aficionada de primera. When I step into the bullring, I perform using the nom de taureau Sesitos de Tapioca de Eden Prairie (Little Tapioca-For-Brains from Eden Prairie).