Before becoming an award-winning blogger* I was a government contractor and then, a stay-at-home mom. I’ve since been on maternity leave for 11 years and I suspect my position has not been kept waiting for me. For the past 11 years I have had time to hone my craft (craft unknown) while holding out for a management position. I have dabbled in housewifery, not raising hooligans (which, based on the picture I am failing at miserably), combating the egregious overuse of glitter, and saving the Earth one cloth napkin at a time.

I have written various blogs for my own amusement with a fanbase limited to my loving family and friends who don’t have the cojones to tell me to stop. Prior to “The Traveling Tepaskes” I wrote about my family’s renovation of an 1889, Victorian home in Fredericksburg, Virginia entitled “Bringing Back Sligo” which you can see by clicking on the link.

*It’s true! I won the E. Boyd Graves Preservation Award of Excellence from the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, Inc. for the preservation and blog about our historic home, Sligo.