Whether you have just found this blog, or have been following it for the past month, welcome.  My plan, until I change it, is to post the following:

• On Sundays, a post about the what and why of my religious beliefs, and anything else that falls under that basic category.  I currently attend the Episcopal church, my political beliefs follow directly from my religious beliefs, and I’ve done a good bit of reading and thinking about religion in many of its different forms.
• On Thursdays, a post about the what and why of my political beliefs, which place me at the left of the Democratic Party.  I’ll try to keep the religious bits out of these posts.
• For the rest of the week, at least two book reviews, since I’m trying to read at least two books a week.  I started out with the finalists for the Nebula and Hugo awards (and I’ll repost the Hugo finalists closer to the awards), but I read a lot of things other than science fiction and fantasy.
• Anything else that comes to mind.

I am, at the least, a middle-aged woman, a computer programmer, a wife, a mother, and a friend.  I approach the world by reading and thinking about it.  If given something I don’t understand, like Harry Potter’s Hermione, I go to the library!

It’s a weird, strange, wonderful world we live in.  Come join me.  I promise, I’m only cranky sometimes.