I’m a transplant from Colorado via California. I spent the DotCom years in Silicon Valley doing the geek chic thing. Stoughton isn’t my hometown, but it’s my home now. It's close enough to Madison that people know that “chic” rhymes with “geek,” but far enough away that my daily commute is filled with cornfields and cows instead of cars. Ahhhhhh.

I don't live to be a mom, but I don't think I could live without it. I do love my little Hazel so. She wants a brother or sister, but I'm on the fence. It's SO nice not to have to lug a diaper bag everywhere, and Hazel is wonderfully self-sufficient now. I don't think I could go back! Still, that first year is amazing -- so sweet and snuggly and all all all yours.

I'm having fun discovering all the things I never knew I could do now that I'm a single adult, like cleaning my gutters, painting over the graffiti on my shed (again), or shutting off the water in my tiny crawl space without freaking out about the oozy mud and lurking spiders and pressing dark and and and (ok, deep breaths).... I'm proud of being self-sufficient, even when it's icky. Sometimes especially when it's icky. I'm definitely not a girly girl, but I'm not quite a tomboy either. As with almost everything, somewhere in the middle lies the truth.