Thanks to everyone who found me in the "add me" community! I really appreciate it, and your comments were all the kinds that I really missed back in the good old days of Live Journal. I also appreciate everyone who read and commented on my sad first entry. I've been in a kind of transformative process for the last few years and I'm still figuring quite a few things out.

A bit more about me:

I teach drawing and painting full time at a state university in Pennsylvania. I arrived there two years ago after 18 years at another state university where I taught art history, which I loved. I love teaching studio art too, but I kinda miss art history. (I don't have a PhD, which is a thing my current university wants for Art History). I don't miss the administrative mess that was my former employer.

I am a witch. I was part of a rather large Trad for a number of decades. I was very active with them, but found the structure had become restricting (for me) and I wanted to be more open to pursue my art and writing. I am also married and polyamorous and part of a quad.

Facebook can be fun, but there are too many family members, current and former students and coworkers there, and I wanted to find a place where I could safely be myself. I am out of the broom closet all the way, not quite all the way out of the poly closet. (Frankly I wouldn't care if people knew if I was poly, but I also don't want my life to be a distraction in the classroom, if that makes sense).

I'm also wanting to be relatively anonymous because I'm still working on processing a lot of the things that went on when I was in my previous trad. Recovery from narcissistic abuse, recovery from cult-y thinking, stuff like that.

I am recently diagnosed with ADD and I'm learning how to navigate that at my advanced age. It does indeed manifest differently in women then it does with men.

What else? I'm really really into the Qabala, I love studying magickal systems. I'm currently reading a lot of Damien Echols' and Jason Miller's books. I am listening to a number of podcasts, especially ones that deal with recovery from narcissistic abuse and cults. I'm still trying to figure out if I actually was in a cult.

My mood tends towards optimism. I think sometimes I am too intense for people as my optimism kinda borders on Ted Lasso levels most of the time.

Thanks for being here. I soooo appreciate this platform and thanks for reading!