Self-deluded writer. Imagination fiend. Lover of great stories in all forms. Laughter-addicted and geek fetishist. Feminist without apology. Rampant liberal with a dose of self-discovery and doubt. Vegetarian. Environmentalist. Agnostic amalgam with a spiritual longing. A person in search of a home, a culture, a niche. Consummate animal person and a devoted veteran of animal rescue and rehabilitation. Defender of the maligned, abused, and misrepresented, both two- and four-legged. Incurably, insatiably curious. Turned on by science, well-turned phrases, art that gives you pause, and the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake. Unabashed, irredeemable, and incorrigible lover of books, language, and words. Scientist by brain and training, literary devotee by heart and hobby. Lovely, silly, irreverent, geeky, sensible, snarky.