Who is this demon, Kia?

Born in 1965, I have been writing with intent & purpose since 1977. An excessively conscientious intellectual child blooms into adult, always with that desire to save the world. To make it a better place for my being here.

Gad, what a heavy burden to assume. & so many of us do it. It builds strength in us, tho', this tilting at windmills.

We all need day jobs to keep us moving forward; I raised children for a coupla decades, & in a century or so, this will be seen as the day job it was. All the while I read, & even occasionally I wrote.

I attended college, studying math. I nearly completed degrees in statistics & sociology before coming to my senses & dropping out. I was in it for the beauty of learning, not the vo-tec necessities. Plus, I want to be a sci-fi writer when I grow up. (A sci-fi writing, pajama-wearing pornographer, technically, but that's another story.) & sci-fi writers study sciences. I have a passionate love / hate thing going on for humanity, so studying people is what I do alongside breathing . . . . . .

In 1996 the passel of chilluns & I quit driving a car to get around our northern California sprawlburbia. Bicycling took the place of the automobile for the betterment of us all. That's right, I raised a rabid nest of alternative-thinking, environmentally-minded, authority-questioning progressives. They vote. They think with their own little heads. It's marvelous. Children & young people restore my faith in humanity all on their own, on an ongoing basis.

Finally, for the moment, I'm gonna share something way-not-politically-correct in our puritanical time & place: I'm a sex freak. & it feels like an act of revolution to pursue my pleasures in the face of entrenched human culture that fears excess pleasure.

These are some of the themes that dominate my life. There are others, but hopefully, universe willing, there will be other posts.

Courage.