X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by x9.boston.juno.com X-Mailer: Juno 1.49 Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 13:04:58 -0700 Reply-To: Laura L De Pinto Sender: WRITERS From: Laura L De Pinto Subject: [WRITERS] SUB: BIO newbie Laura DePinto To: WRITERS@mitvma.mit.edu Hi Writers. Usually I lurk on lists, but I decided to leap empty handed into the void on this one. I don't like bios. Hmm, let's see. I'm a recovering hippie at heart. A boomer through and through. I went back to the land in the early '70s. I went to write and live simply. As it happens, living simply takes up most of your waking time, and so I stayed as long as I could, kept my journals, received my share of rejection slips and form letters, read my poetry here and there, and eventually ended up back in Seattle where I was born. Now 25 or 30 years later, a little wiser, a lot more whole; I'm ready to go back to the land again. I've always wanted to write, and have, maybe more than some, but not in the way you have to in order to really do it ( You know the 90% work/10% talent deal). On September 30th this year (as "time's winged chariot" flies when you're having a life) I'll turn 50. But inside I feel much different than my younger self thought I would. Younger. I'm always a Seeker, open to many perspectives. I do my own brand of psychic and Tarot readings, do Rune casting, Medicine card readings, and such. I'm somewhat meno-mad right now, being a woman of a certain age stumbling my way through a particularly challenging passage. Cognitively challenged could describe one leg of this journey. So the shampoo's in the fridge, and the butter's in the medicine cabinet? There are worse things. I have a teen aged daughter who has many special challenges which I have always been committed to help her meet (gladly yet wearily at times) sans a partner. I've been a Single parent for 14 years, sort of by choice, although I'm not expecting to always fly solo. So there you have a small part of it. I'm excited to engineer the time to SUB sometimes, and to give feedback when I can. <><><><><><><><><><<><><>>><>><>><><><><><><><> In Light and Lightness, Laura lldepinto@juno.com Humor....... softens the spiritual life, and makes it bearable. Thomas Moore _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]