Introduction: A Wee Bit about Me

Today is my third day here. For everyone who has welcomed me, thank you for making me feel at home. For anyone checking me out to see if I'll be a "good" friend, my best traits are that I'm trustworthy, maintain a healthy distance from all things spammy and I'll be upfront with you about my motives here. 

 Currently, I'm not promoting any affiliate links, although that will change as I'm a big fan of PotPieGirl already and I do write for a couple of online sites. I may just end up posting a couple of links before too long. For now, if you want to know about any of them, just send me a note. 

 In other words, I'm not after your pocketbook, even though I  like the looks of Fatwallet's wallet. Just teasing.

 About me: I've always been a Jill of many interests. Lots of my hobbies have made money. Hey, I've always been a high school English teacher, so my avocations usually involved making money to support my book-and classroom-material habit for my day job.

 My personal writing has been on the back burner for many years. Article writing these days has been a new learning experience because of my background. An English major loves metaphors, and boy, was I an English major (advanced degrees even). I adore teaching literature, which means I am highly enamored of metaphors.

Metaphors screw up everything on the Internet search engines. Letting go of them . . . .I still can't bear to think of doing so. I literally think in metaphors, symbols and images, not to mention archetypes and such.

Those Google spiders threatened to do me in, but I've whipped out my trusty broomstick and am trying to at least send them back into their corners.

Oh -- my photo is an old one, too. I'm definitely Internet shy when it comes to pictures and real life. It was one I had on the hard drive here. I'm older in this photo. I look good to be 110 years old, don't I?

If you wish me as much good luck and success on my online journey as I do you, then we're all going to succeed. I tend to enjoy the journey more so than the getting there, but that ideal comes with age and experience. It really is about the journey, I've found. Enjoy every day of it, even the frustrating, spider-filled ones. 

Now, back to work. I've yet to determine if spiders are a good thing or a bad thing. I think we want them -- badly.

 Take care!