If we don’t know each other yet, I hope you change that soon by leaving me a comment – to that end, a note about comments seems in order – it’s been my experience that blogs garner a lot of spam when they get going. Because of this, I will be moderating initial comments, and I do run Akismet in the background. If you think your comment has been inadvertently caught as spam or missed by me, feel free to send me an email  at romilly@goldencircledesigns.com to ask about it. but before you panic, give me a couple of days (or the entire weekend) because I’m not always accessible to a computer, although I try. (I’m learning to like Twitter, too, despite the EO’s dismay at that!)

And this would be a good beginning to an introduction to me. I’m not always near a computer, despite making my living as a technical writer. Like any good 18th century lady, I have myriad interests keeping me busy:

• I write
• I garden
• I dance
• I stitch
• I knit
• I paint and draw
• I am owned by cats

The general introductory things about me are relatively simple: I live on a small acreage in North Carolina’s Piedmont region (one also home to many many toads), am happily married for many years now to the EO (Evil Overlord). We are owned by two cats —  the Queen of the household and her daughter, Dora the Explorer, who thinks she’s special because she has stripes in a house full of black cats — even the old man and old lady cats who have now passed on,  and the interloping visitor cat were black.  In our home, being a simple tabby stripe does make you special!