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My 15 years online have been spent more involved in interaction than interjection just as my four decades of life have been focused on learning & listening. Being in a constant state of learning & honing the ability to listen to myself as well as others has left me with not only plenty to share but the desire to do so in a dynamic way. I’ve always reached out from the fervent belief we’re meant to impact each other. Utilizing IRC, forums & groups over the years, I’ve long known I would blog. In 2004, I offered a handful of missives on LiveJournal but was still very active elsewhere across the web & resumed working full-time so it wasn’t til 2006 that I tried to get serious.

I’ve had to learn to let go. Practically speaking, it was that or live with regret; personally speaking, I wasn’t willing to live with the latter. There have always been limitations on my finances as well as my energy so I’ve had to be frugal with both. This has left dreams as my only unlimited scape &, for sanity’s sake, I’ll never let go of those. One of the best aspects of dreaming is that it can be done while dealing with everyday life. My dreams have shifted over the years, as you would expect, but have always had a single theme. From a small girl’s determination to be a pirate when I grew up (à la Robin Hood tho’) to my current desire to live in something mobile, I’ve always wanted to travel.. but I digress.

Digression is a form of travel; off topic, off world, just off. It’s all traveling of a sort. Most of my traveling thus far has been via fiction but also people as both create new worlds within us. As driven as I am to express myself, I can’t pass up an opportunity to experience a quality person or story. Thus, life’s plethora of experiences (both good & bad) lured me away from previous blogging attempts. Yet that love — even need — for people has brought me right back. Between life’s ups & downs, my health‘s ins & outs as well as computers coming & too often going, the Blogger attempt of 2006 proved sporadic too then ended abruptly when we found ourselves facing homelessness. A year of motel life & internet cafes put blogging on hold.

Three‘s my favorite number so the folklore behind its magic becomes a motivational force for me.Twice I lost my window to the wired; the death of my computer (hard drives momentarily still for Edgar 9000) killed that 1st blog & my 2nd endeavor succumbed to us not having our own connection for far too long. Truth be told, there’s no length of disconnection that’s not excruciating. It’s the connection to people & the exchange of life experience that’s truly painful to be without though. As of coffeesister.net, the computer issues continued but now I have a home, my own computer & can finally be hostess rather than visitor on these interwebz. It took a while to settle in; I’m only now getting everything WordPressed — including the Blogger posts — & will soon make sense of it all for you. In the meantime, the dream of sharing what this crazy life’s taught me & traveling to the many worlds that are YOU is ready to be lived. Welcome & may this third blog flourish!

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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
~ Anais Nin ~