I am a 40 year-old, politically liberal wife and mother of two. I teach composition part time at a largely commuter state university. Ralph Waldo Emerson is my personal/spiritual/intellectual guide. I try to appreciate that each person has unique gifts (even if that gift is to be a complete pain in the ass), and on good days, I manage to remember this. However, I’m downright pissy about intolerance and injustice (real or imagined). I laugh a little too loudly and often inappropriately, and I sometimes craft strings of profanity in a way that, I’m sure, makes my drunken Irish-American ancestors proud!